Nothing that will happen over the next ten years can undo the way the past decade's digitization of entertainment--movies, music and books--has made it difficult or impossible to control its dissemination.

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Lundin also believes that large-scale digitization of all tissue samples will also allow for the development of a whole new field of image-based analysis methods.

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More recently, Amazon has taken advantage of the shift to digitization by developing and launching its Kindle e-reader.

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This was the pre-history of digitization, using electronic means to alter our previous notions of time and space and to provide new means of delivering news, information, and entertainment.

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Even while the library represents an enormous investment in careful archiving of print books, it also includes a nod to the paperless future: a well-outfitted preservation and digitization laboratory that librarians will use to scan in books, maps, manuscripts and photographs.

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If media companies hate digitization generally, they particularly loathe Kim Dotcom and his entrepreneurial file-transfer platforms.

ENGADGET

The conference underlined the importance of industry in digitization and digital preservation and adopted a call on industry to ensure long-term accessibility to information which is contained in legacy formats.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

These visits will aim at establishing contact and getting an understanding of the archive practices, preservation of content, accessibility and re-use of content, plans to digitize or existing digitization projects and other relevant issues in the different broadcasters in 13 African countries, including Angola, Lesotho, Namibia, Swaziland and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES