in 1990 the human genome project was begun in the us scientists wanted to make a map of the 3 billion chemical letters in human dan, over 1000 scientists all over the world worked on the project, and it took 13 years. with this information, it is possible that a cure for many diseases will be found in the future. but it also brings with it many question. Do we want to be able to choose what our babies will look like, or use dan tests to pick the best person for a job?
the invention of google
how many common english words were invented by shakespeare?
how long did it take people to find the answer to this question 15 years ago? and now? you can google it and find the answer immediately.
google is the most popular internet search engine in the world. it was invented by two students, larry page and sergey brin. they met in 1995, when they were both studying computer science at stanford university in california. they were also both fans of the science fiction tv program star trek, and they loved the spaceship computer. they dreanied of producing something that could also answer any question in seconds.
internet search engines at the time were slow and give many websizes that weren't useful. in january 1996, page and brin decided to make a better and faster search engine. they fought the resist should be based on the popularity of each website--the most popular ones have to highest number of "weblinks" (links to other websites).
nobody would give them money for their project, so they used their credit cards and bought as much computer memory as possible. they also borrowed money from family and friends. then, in 1998, they were given a check for $100,000 ,and they started their own computer their first office was in a friend's garage! the company name google comes from mathematics. A google is a very hight number-1 followed by 100 zeros.
the google search engine was soon used by thousands of people worldwide because it was find ,easy , and accurate. by 2002 it was the biggest search engine on the internet. now, more questions have been answered by google than any other internet service,from sports
to science, and from music to medicine. google hopes that in the further all the world's information will be put on the internet, so that everybody can find everything.