Introduction

• “Three large areas of human concern and conduct” (2):
  • us
  • the world
  • knowledge
• Is Google evil?
• public failure: “public institutions are relieved of pressure to perform their tasks well” (6)
• pg. 7: “the big questions facing us in the coming years”
• “technocultural imagination” (8)

Chapter 6: Googlization of Memory

• knowledge vs. information (175)
• “filter failure”
• “Forgetting is just as important to the act of thinking as remembering”  (177)
• electronic media simulate evolution? (181)
• “narrowcasting,” personalization, and “different discourse communities” (182–184)
• Google borrows from academia (peer review)?
• criticisms of Google Scholar (192–194)