Google me : one-click democracy /
Barbara Cassin ; translated by Michael Syrotinski.
- First edition.
- xxi, 148 pages ; 23 cm.
- Meaning systems .
- Meaning systems .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-146) and index.
Why be interested in Google? -- Google makes the internet apparent -- Google Inc.: from search to global capital -- Our mission is to organize the world's information -- Don't be evil -- On cultural democracy.
A witty, philosophically-informed, and openly polemical critique by Barbara Cassin of Google that looks at Google’s claims to organize knowledge, and its alleged ethical basis. This critique goes to the heart of the assumed benefits to humanity of increasingly advanced internet technology.
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