Digital libraries: developing countries, universal access, and information for all
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Q2. What have the authors stated for future works in "Digital libraries: developing countries, universal access, and information for all" ?
By allowing people to easily create and disseminate large information collections, digital libraries extend the applications of modern technology in socially responsible directions, and counter a possible threat towards the commercialization of information in line with practices developed by the entertainment industry. As far as the developing world is concerned, digital libraries may prove to be a “ killer app ” for computer technology—that is, an application that makes a sustained market for a promising but under-utilized technology. It should be possible to create digital library collections intended for people in oral cultures, who may be illiterate or semi-literate. Opening digital libraries to the illiterate is a radical and potentially revolutionary benefit of new interface technology.