I came across this TED talk while looking for something else, and because it had “Books” in the title, I had to stop and watch it, even though it’s over a year old. So very entertaining, my dear reading friends. As an author who needs to make a living selling her books not giving them away for free, I’m not terribly keen on Google digitizing every book I’ve written and offering it for the nice price of, ahem, nothing, but I do like the idea of Google internalizing the billions of words we have authors have offered the world and building, for lack of a better word, a brain for them to be accessed. In other words, don’t put out the whole book if the author is still living, but do show us the impact those authors have had on culture. If you don’t know what an n-gram, I think you will find this TED talk interesting. And if you need a laugh today, these guys have a lot of great lines. I love to learn something while being entertained. Don’t you? Watch and tell me what YOU think of n-grams.
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