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News, 3/19/2012

New ideas spur new businesses

© MicrotaskDigitalkoot (Digital Volunteers) game, Microtask, FinlandIn Microtask’s Digitalkoot (Digital Volunteers), the task is to weed out misspellings in scanned National Library documents, and the vehicle is an online game.

Advances in technology allow innovative theories to leave classrooms and enter boardrooms.

Experience has shown that the best way to build an automobile is on an assembly line. Each worker has one task to perform, and their cumulative effort yields a car. Yet this basic concept can be taken further – out of the real world and into the virtual realm.

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Updated 3/19/2012


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