Unshelved by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum
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Wednesday, July 21, 2004

Interesting, but after seeing the movie yesterday, a little creepy :)

BBC NEWS | Technology | Robots get bookish in libraries

Little worker drones busily reshelving books, shelf-reading, detecting missing books, even digitising books...hmmm; fortunately the true worth of librarians is very hard to build into a machine, so I don't think we have to worry about replacement. But visions of killer robots trying to make the library absolutely efficient do spring to mind. :)

Meanwhile, I'm not sure how I feel about the comment about the library being a 'perfect environment' for robots. How does that reflect on us? :)

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