“I said, Who put all those things in your head?” —Lennon/McCartney, “She Said She Said”

For a while now, I’ve been meaning to write something about the corruption of the Google search engine, which strikes me as one of the defining stories of the information age. This is not that story. But it’s related. As I was writing my last post about television and thinking about the various cultural responses to TV in the sixties and seventies, I started wondering w...