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Animating Shakespeare
MICROSOFT co-founder Bill Gates, his former chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold and eight of their cohorts have applied for a patent on a way to automatically generate video from text. They say that by bringing the text to life in this way, their idea could keep students interested in what they are made to read. “School textbooks,” they complain, “are notorious for their dry presentation of material.”
The American colleague who alerted us to this says it sounds like an…
