Google Print set to change the world?

Lawrence Lessig has written very interesting article in Wired defending Google Print. Here’s is short quote:

Google must decide how it will handle the battle over its latest great idea: Google Print. Last December? the com?pany announced it would Googlize 15 million books. For works under copyright, a search would produce snippets around the search term used. But for books in the public domain, a search would also yield access to the full text of the works. Almost 90 percent of the books Google might scan are out of print. The project promises to ?radi?cally enhance our access to the past – to remind us of forgotten information. It is the great?est gift to knowledge since, well, Google

Read the entire article over at Wired.