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  • Michael Stern Hart
  • Hart was best known for his 1971 invention of electronic books, or eBooks
  • He founded Project Gutenberg, which is recognized as one of the earliest and longest-lasting online literary projects
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  • From this beginning, the digitization and distribution of literature was to be Hart's life's work, spanning over 40 years
  • "Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."
  • his passion for life, and all the things in it, never abated
  • The invention of eBooks was not simply a technological innovation or precursor to the modern information environment. A more correct understanding is that eBooks are an efficient and effective way of unlimited free distribution of literature. Access to eBooks can thus provide opportunity for increased literacy. Literacy, and the ideas contained in literature, creates opportunity.
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