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Imagining the Internet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the badger-badger-badger-badger-mushroom-mushroom dept.

oDDmON oUT writes ""Imagining the Internet", an ambitious project patterned after the book "Forecasting the Telephone: A Retrospective Technology Assessment" by Ithiel de Sola Pool, examines the potential future of what some deem the most revolutionary technological innovation of the 20th century, while providing a peek into it's history. Nearly 1,300 technology pioneers participated by responding to a survey posing questions about the effects of the internet on a wide range of topics, as well as giving their comments and impressions. Those predictions are indexed into a searchable database, and there is a report available as a pdf file."

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  1. They're using Lucene by dilute · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I see they are using Lucene as their search engine. Lucene a powerful open source indexing system from the Apache Jakarta project written in Java. It's nice to see this, rather than MS indexing service or some other proprietary search solution. Lucene, with the appropriate open source plugins, can index a wide range of content, including MS Office and PDF files.