Thank Goodness for Smart People
It's amazing what creative, smart people come up with. Learn how CAPTCHAs are being used to digitize books; if you don't know what a CAPTCHA is, the video explains (you probably have used them many times). This clip is a little long, but very interesting and actually kind of entertaining, in a geeky sort of way! How important is this technology? Google recently acquired reCAPTCHA for an undisclosed amount.
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