Famous Nerds #12 (cont)
Michael Hart
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- Founder of Project Gutenberg
- books for everyone for free
- available in plain ascii text
- typed/scanned by volunteers
- 99.9% accessible, 99.9% correct
- currently > 22,000 texts online, e.g.
- "Hamlet", "Macbeth", ... by Shakespeare
- "Anna Karenina", ... by Leo Tolstoy
- "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu
- "CIA World Factbook", 1990-1998
- "Chromosomes 1-24", Human Genome Project
- currently in project RepRap
(3d printers, self-replicating machines)
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