What Role Will Computers Play In The Publishing Industry?
Thursday, 17. April 2008, 00:45:04
Library Link Of Day posted a few days ago an article from New York Times about a person who was able to write 200 000 books. I know what you think now....that I am exaggerating and this is not possible.
Well. It is possible, but with the help of a few dozen computers and a handful of programmers.
"Mr. Parker, who is also the chaired professor of management science at Insead (a business school with campuses in Fontainebleau, France, and Singapore), has developed computer algorithms that collect publicly available information on a subject — broad or obscure — and, aided by his 60 to 70 computers and six or seven programmers, he turns the results into books in a range of genres, many of them in the range of 150 pages and printed only when a customer buys one."
Read the article for more details or if you have time explore the 10 minute video on You Tube.
This post made me realize that we are really in the very beginning of our journey with computers, databases, Internet and artificial intelligence.
Imagine what role computers will play in the publishing industry 10 or 50 years from now?
Well. It is possible, but with the help of a few dozen computers and a handful of programmers.
"Mr. Parker, who is also the chaired professor of management science at Insead (a business school with campuses in Fontainebleau, France, and Singapore), has developed computer algorithms that collect publicly available information on a subject — broad or obscure — and, aided by his 60 to 70 computers and six or seven programmers, he turns the results into books in a range of genres, many of them in the range of 150 pages and printed only when a customer buys one."
Read the article for more details or if you have time explore the 10 minute video on You Tube.
This post made me realize that we are really in the very beginning of our journey with computers, databases, Internet and artificial intelligence.
Imagine what role computers will play in the publishing industry 10 or 50 years from now?
