Yes, but we have a 300 year start! ;^)
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PAUL D. CALLISTER, JD, MSLIS
Library Director & Associate Professor of Law
LEON E. BLOCH LAW LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF LAW
"Librarianship remains the last refuge of idealists." -- Bob Berring, Thinkable Thoughts, Law Librarians 3 (Sept. - Oct. 2003).
"My guess is, you know, about 300 years until computers are as good as, say, your local reference library in doing search. But we've--we can make slow and steady progress and maybe one day we'll get there." Sunday Morning: The Little Engine that Could; Google Grows from Garage to Giant (CBS television broadcast, March 28, 2004) (Charles Osgood reporting interview with Craig Silverstein, Google Director of Technology).
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From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu]On Behalf Of Zammarelli, Christopher M.
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 4:02 PM
To: Law-Lib (E-mail)
Subject: RE: Google a compliment
Ah, but doesn't this mean that Google's goal is to ultimately make librarians obsolete?
Chris
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From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu] On Behalf Of Callister, Paul D.
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 4:51 PM
To: Barbara Zaruba; Law-Lib (E-mail)
Subject: RE: Google a compliment
Great quote. I looked it up in Lexis' CBS News Transcript file. Here's the wording and citation:
"My guess is, you know, about 300 years until computers are as good as, say, your local reference library in doing search. But we've--we can make slow and steady progress and maybe one day we'll get there." Sunday Morning: The Little Engine that Could; Google Grows from Garage to Giant (CBS television broadcast, March 28, 2004) (Charles Osgood reporting interview with Craig Silverstein, Google Director of Technology).
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PAUL D. CALLISTER, JD, MSLIS
Library Director & Associate Professor of Law
LEON E. BLOCH LAW LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF LAW
"Librarianship remains the last refuge of idealists." -- Bob Berring, Thinkable Thoughts, Law Librarians 3 (Sept. - Oct. 2003).
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