Google Me: One-Click Democracy

Meaning Systems

by Barbara Cassin

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.

172 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 3, 2017

About the author

Barbara Cassin is a French philologist and philosopher. She was elected to the Académie française on 4 May 2018. Cassin is the recipient of the Grand Prize of Philosophy of the Académie française. She is an emeritus Research Director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. Cassin is a program Director at the International College of Philosophy and the director of its Scientific Council and member of its board of directors. She was a director of Collège international de philosophie established by Jacques Derrida.

Reviews

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

The hilarious take of an intellectual fraud. Cassin has probably a hard time setting up Gmail on a new computer, yet he can generate mysticism in amazing quantities. And yea, the title is cute, yet it only exacerbates the void which Cassin pretends to thread.

[Gino · Rating 5 out of 5]

El libro es interesante y aborda bien el como ha impactado Google en nuestras vidas, ya se analizaba el gran impacto de este motor de búsqueda desde 2006 y es muy interesante compararlo con lo que es hoy.

[Lincoln Day · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an interesting and relevant book. I do wonder how she would write it differently in the present.

The tone is quite odd. At times, it is as if she has to resort to philosophical jargon in order to understand something, but that is not a real problem.

[María Eugenia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Alguna reflexión interesante tiene, pero...