Searching for Lost Knowledge in the Age of Intelligent Machines
As search engines are radically
reinvented, computers and people are becoming partners in exploration.
Searching
for lost knowledge is its own kind of science, but ultimately an incomplete
one. “In that sense,” Swanson wrote, “there are no limits to either science or
information retrieval. But then, too, there are no final answers.”
And
yet people keep searching, sifting through the sands of time for traces to the
past. They continue looking, in dank archives and distant oceans, against all
odds of discovery. We search because we must, because in every direction,
stretching back to the beginning of human history, is the irresistible
possibility that we might yet find a strange new sliver of who we were, and
better understand what we have become.
Available @ http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/12/the-search-for-lost-knowledge/506879/
Regards
Pralhad
Jadhav
Senior
Manager @ Library
Khaitan & Co
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