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"Now that Google has conquered a majority of the earth's major streets with its Google Street View project, the company is starting to move inside. It's creating the Google Art Project, a virtual equivalent of 17 major art museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Britain and National Gallery in London, and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, among many others. Amit Sood, director of the project, said in a company blog post that the documentation of major museums began when a small group of Google employees with a passion for art started wondering how they could make major art museums, and the works they house, more accessible to people worldwide."

A good overview of how the use of IT has affected the practice of medicine. Theses:  This computer record creates what I call an "iPatient" - and this iPatient threatens to become the real focus of our attention, while the real patient in the bed often feels neglected, a mere placeholder for the virtual record.

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Although this is an Op-Ed piece, I thought it worth our attention. I could serve as a stepping off place for a unit on AI and Robotics, or stimulate a myriad of debates at the end of such a unit. I have enjoyed my summer reading of Lanier's book You Are Not Your Gadget_ and share this piece with you.

Lanier wrote _You Are Not Your Gadget_. He is considered the "father" of virtual reality

a sad reflection of the times

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