People’s choice in songs are determined by an algorithm--that works online--which leads to a more homogenized taste in music across the world cutting across the barriers of geography, income levels and language.
Google is like this abominable cousin who used to be called a ‘walking encyclopaedia’—it piles on fact over fact to bury imagination. It nullifies the experience of age; it dulls the exuberance of youth.
Caesar Sengupta, VP, Next Billion Users and GM of payment at Google, talks to Outlook about the corporation’s work in India and the controversies it is embroiled in.
Google may be the most popular, but it isn’t the only search engine out there. Many other players live up to the tasks that Google might not do for you…
For many of us who can remember the world before Google, the past two decades have gone by at breakneck speed, changing much about the human experience, writes Baijayant Panda.
'Google has converted the brain from a storage repository to a processor. That’s the big revolution it has brought. You pick up the specific piece of knowledge by searching it on Google and then process it the way you want.'
'One had to hunt out information like a Rottweiler, swallow and regurgitate the material as analysis, perspective or narrative. Now Google that if I am wrong.'
The reference books that graced the tables of doctors until the 1990s have now been replaced with a laptop or desktop; the books have been consigned to libraries, writes Cardiologist Naresh Trehan.
