| Resumen: |
The world faces a fundamental challenge: how to bring text to the millions
of people who do not have enough. Fortunately, the internet is helping to
level the playing field. It has accelerated the spread of information and,
in many instances, democratized access to it. Digital networks, computer
processors and liquid crystal display (LCD) screens remove production constraints
that have kept reading material prohibitively expensive for centuries.
Increasingly, paper and ink are being replaced by bits and bytes, and physical
distribution channels are being streamlined by cables that can carry electronic
information to the farthest corners of the planet almost instantaneously.
At the same time ever-improving search tools are making the vast repositories
of online text easy to use and navigate. Today a robust internet connec-
The world faces a
fundamental challenge:
how to bring text to the
millions of people who
do not have enough.
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tion gives a person access to more text than in all of the physical libraries
ever built. |
