I am speaking to you from my home in ithaca new york and im the author of cosmos possible worlds and im deeply, truly honored to be participating in this event for the library of congress. The very first of cosmo cosmos 0 years ago, carl sagan and stephen and i celebrated the Great Library of alexandria and the library of congress means so very much to me because of the democratic idea of the worlds knowledge to all of us so it is my great honor to be here. Im here to talk about household world just the book ive written and also a Television Series that i had the pleasure of producing, writing and directing with my collaborator. So, why a third cosmos after 30 years . The first cosmos was an effort to give the broadest possible public a global public. Itits coordinates in space and time. It was his dream, one that i completely share that how we find our way in the cosmos, the great story of the 40,000 generations of human beings who in one way or another added to the current understand
Members of congress, government officials and technology leaders. Brewster kahle, what you do for living . I run the archives. Internet library on the internet that catalogs books, trying to build the internet into the library of alexandria for the digital age. That sounds like the internet. Doesnt it . Guest the internet is getting there but the published works is not fast enough. The average life of a webpage is only 100 days. Before it is changed or deleted. One hundred days. We built our culture on this ever shifting hand soap with the internet archive it takes snapshots of the webpages on websites every two months. It takes a snapshot and its been doing this since 1996 and offers it as a free service on archives. Org and used by hundred of thousands of people a day to find all the things that been disappeared either maliciously or sometimes just drop off the net. How many websites are there today . Guest hundreds of millions and they are coming and going all of the time. We collec
Host the committee the co is that the state of the net conference in washington, d. C. Were going to share some of the interviews we conducted with members of congress, government officials and technology leaders. So brewster kahle, what you do for living . Guest i run the internet archives, Internet Library onto internet the gives way books, music, video webpages, software for free trying to build the internet into the library of alexandria for the digital age. Host that sounds like the internet, doesnt it . Guest the internet is getting there but lets take of the web. The average life of the webpage is only 100 days before it is changed or deleted. 100 days. We built our culture on this ever shifting sand so what the internet archives does is it take snapshots of the webpages on websites every two months. Snapshot, snapchat comes snapshot. Its been doing this at 1986 and offers this as a service. Its used by hundreds of thousands a day. They find all these things disappear, either ma
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That gives away software for free, trying to build the ofernet into the Library Alexandria for the digital age. Peter that sounds like the internet, doesnt it . Brewster the internet is getting there, but the average life of a webpage is only 100 days before it is changed or deleted. Peter 100 days . Brewster so weve built our culture on ever shifting sand. The archive takes a snapshot of the webpages on websites every two months. Snapshot, snapshot. Its been doing it since 1996 and offers it as a free service of the way back machine on archive. Org and it is used by hundreds of thousands of people a day. All of these things have disappeared either maliciously or sometimes just they drop off the net. Peter how many websites are there today . Brewster hundreds of millions, and they are coming and going all of the time, that we collect about 800 million pages every day. The total collection of about 800 billion urls. It is kind of huge, and it turns out that is only part of what we do. W