Denton Gentry@thomasfuchs Not what one would usually think of but: genealogy.
Automatically transcribing scanned documents and making them searchable changed the field entirely.
It led to a bunch of countries tightening and refining their citizenship-by-descent laws and adding cutoffs like "only born before 2000," as so many more people now can discover the nationality of their ancestors.
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