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Meanwhile ... somewhere in Canada ....
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I actually checked this one out to see if it was from Voltaire: Fake Quotes Project/Voltaire/I have chosen to be happy
Verdict is, close enough 
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I'll see you one Archduke and raise you one Keanu on an excellent adventure 
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You can blame"Dancing with the Tsars"for inspiring this whole discussion!
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Though I appreciate a good meme now & again, I've always hesitated to clutter up the Photo Section with them so I thought I'd create a discussion where we could post our favourites.
Have fun!
updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 09 Jan 2017 09:36:25PM
How to build an information time machine.
History
This TED Talk is somewhat geeky & truly fascinating:
How to build an information time machine.
Imagine if you could surf Facebook ... from the Middle Ages. Well, it may not be as far off as it sounds. In a fun and interesting talk, researcher and engineer Frederic Kaplan shows off the Venice Time Machine, a project to digitize 80 kilometers of books to create a historical and geographical simulation of Venice across 1000 years. (Filmed at TEDxCaFoscariU.)
I'd absolutely love to be working on this project! What about you?
So to conclude, we can say that research in the humanities is about to undergo an evolution which is maybe similar to what happened to life sciences 30 years ago. It's really a question of scale. We see projects which are much beyond any single research team can do, and this is really new for the humanities, which very often take the habit of working in small groups or only with a couple of researchers. When you visit the Archivio di Stato, you feel this is beyond what any single team can do, and that should be a joint and common effort. So what we must do for this paradigm shift is actually foster a new generation of "digital humanists" that are going to be ready for this shift.
updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 06 Oct 2016 06:36:11AM