My morning NPR podcast was one such moment.
The story explores how a programmer who helped develop a common security measure for the web found a way to utilize it for an unexpected and beneficial secondary purpose.

The programmer realized that the words being identified could be from scanned books set to be digitized but were too badly distorted or degraded for OCR programs to decipher. Thus allowing people like me to contribute to the collective knowledge of the internets albeit unknowingly.
I’m basically paraphrasing the article so go read for yourself and be impressed.
1 comment:
OK. That's awesome. Funny enough, to post this comment, I will have to do a word verification and now I know I am not furthering the digitization of our planet because it is random. I am only wasting my time.
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