Google has recently launched a new database for books. The database has a storage of 500 billion words found in various books from the year 1500 to 2008. Mr. Erez Lieberman Aiden, a junior fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard, and Jean-Baptiste Michel, another fellow at Harvard, have collaborated to describe how this Google database has revolutionized the people's understanding of language, culture and even the flow of ideas. They discuss how this new digital database has opened so many doors in the world of literature and history. This newly advanced online tool was intended for scholars, yet anyone can plug in up to 5 words and see the graphs of the evolution of those words.
How will this database change our lives? Will they be able to expand the database and update it in the future?
This link talks more about the database and how it is a cultural revolution.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/cultural-evolution-google/
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