But Dr. Hwang said the category is accelerating because consumers are accustomed to using the Internet to gather information.

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He led the development of the Open Library, a project of the Internet Archive that seeks to gather information about every book ever published in one place.

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Traveling outside of the US, you quickly get a sense of just how much the internet has changed how we gather and validate information.

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