All the TV News Since 2009, on One Web Site

This something that I find to be truly innovative and something that could be of the norm in the future. An internet website that has all the news programs of the last 3 years on one search site. "As of Tuesday, the archive’s online collection will include every morsel of news produced in the last three years by 20 different channels, encompassing more than 1,000 news series that have generated more than 350,000 separate programs devoted to news." Being able to go back and reflect on certain story's of the last couple of years and seeing them as it happened would be a key and important learning device for many. I can see this being a new source of disruptive technology in the future. The current way of looking back or looking up certain events would be something that one would go to the library for. Now everyone would have the ability to go to a certain search engine where they could look up all the important information relating to the event. Say a couple of years down the line you need to do a research project on the day we killed Bin Laden, a good source of information would be the news feeds of major channels during that night.

We have video search engines such as Youtube, but I believe in the near future we will have something that will be able to show us videos of major events when we look up a particular topic. In the movie iRobot, Will Smith's character looks up the news feeds of events that were important to him in the movie. The point being made here is that there have been so many news feeds of major events in history, so why not use these news feeds as an educational tool? The fact is that being able to see these events as they happened will be key and important educators down the line. “You could turn all the books in the Library of Congress into a stack of disks that would fit in one shopping cart in Best Buy,” Mr. Kahle said. He estimates that the Internet Archive now contains about 9,000 terabytes of data; by contrast, the digital collection of the Library of Congress is a little more than 300 terabytes, according to an estimate earlier this year." This is a perfect idea for a possible development in technology as well as a form of disruptive technology. 


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/business/media/internet-archive-amasses-all-tv-news-since-2009.html?ref=technology