The Answer Machine

Raw Data by Stanford, PRX, and The Sloan Foundation

Sep 19, 201927:08Technology

Google has become our yellow pages, our atlas, our library, our medical consultant, our shopping guide. Which means it is, basically, a giant, virtual confession booth. It knows our most intimate secrets and our most mun...

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