We’ve all heard a lot in the news recently about books being digitized for all to read. Microsoft is doing a $20 million project in Britain, and Google is building several libraries in the United States. There has been some controversy on this issue from authors receiving royalties and booksellers. It is for this reason that our Think Tank raised the topic.

A prominent member of our Think Tank “Swift” said; “I was looking into your digital library idea and Goggle’s attempt to put all existing books on the internet. I really like this idea as only a small percentage of books remain in print. I’ve been looking for one out of print book for decades called The Rose and the Labyrinth and I’ve done book searches all over the world. I discovered there were 5 books with this title. The one I’m looking for is about Carl Jung’s time spent with minors and his reactions to them. He didn’t write it, but I don’t have the information about the book anymore so I don’t remember who the writer is. There are some really wonderful out of print books and no way to access them. I’m having trouble with publishers who are concerned about copyright infringement issues copyright and the “fair use” interpretation.

They wouldn’t start with the newer books, I think; but the books that were no longer protected. What the hell are they being protected from? Nobody is going to pretend that they wrote them loudly. After this period of time, I will read any book that names the Rose and the Labyrinth and pretend it was the book Jung’s last student recommended to me before he died. I really like the idea of ​​a mine being a labyrinth, my father too.

Well, I certainly see Swift’s point on this and we know that we are currently very busy digitizing humanity’s written knowledge from books to digital so that it can be made available to the world. This is a very smart move as books can deteriorate over the years and out of print books are not available to everyone. By digitizing the human written knowledge known to the world, we can conquer the barriers of opportunity from those hard shippers who may not have the resources to achieve the upward mobility they seek. As we bridge the digital divide, we will be well on our way to bringing the world’s knowledge of the entire Library of Commerce back to the human race in an easy-to-read, search, and retrieve format available to all. Indeed, that will be an excellent day for the human race. Imagine a Library of Commerce digital library capable of using Super Computer speeds to retrieve all the world’s written books online at the speed of Google or MSN.com. I mean, any book written in any language, anywhere in the world, at any time, think about it for a second.

By using knowledge and experience in this way, we can take advantage of this to avoid failure through understanding the results. Those who don’t learn from their mistakes tend to avoid making them. Those who remember the lessons learned from their mistakes and successes tend to reason better by analyzing their mistakes and trying to find a way to fix their problems.

Now let me tell you why I think a society needs digital libraries connected to all civilizations for faster advancement of the human species as a whole or as one. If you had a problem that needed to be solved for the betterment of your civilization and you had all the knowledge in the world at your fingertips; that is, a computer connected to a system such as a World Digital Library would then have improved his personal knowledge and memory by a million times. This could help your intelligent quotient to the speed of the computer and that, along with the speed of thought, is an important component needed to bring humanity to the singularity of an omniscient and endless being in this dimension. Think about this.