“Google’s beliefs and objectives regarding knowledge, George Gilder argues, are political to the core:
The Google theory of knowledge and mind are not mere abstract exercises. They dictate Google’s business model, which has progressed from “search” to “satisfy.” Google’s path to riches, for which it can show considerable evidence, is that with enough data and enough processors it can know better than we do what will satisfy our longings… If the path to knowledge is the infinitely fast processing of all data, if the mind—that engine by which we pursue the truth of things—is simply a logic machine, then the combination of algorithm and data can produce one and only one result. Such a vision is not only deterministic but ultimately dictatorial.”
Rectenwald, Michael. Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom. New English Review Press, 2019. pg 75
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