reCAPTCHA / Crowdsourcing

March 17, 2009 | 0 Minute Read
This post was originally posted on my old blog.

reCAPTCHA is an interesting idea.

Seemingly 150'000 hours are spent every day, solving Captchas. This is quite a waste of intellectual energy. reCAPTCHA now tries to recycle this intellectual energy... something like a mental wind-power-plant...