Google it: total information awareness

From Google search to self-driving cars to human longevity, is Alphabet creating a neoteric Garden of Eden or Bentham's Panopticon? Will King Solomon's challenge supersede the Turing test for artificial intelligence? Can transhumanism mitigate existential threats to humankind? These are some of the overarching questions in this book, which explores the impact of information awareness on humanity starting from the Book of Genesis to the Royal Library of Alexandria in the 3rd century BC to the modern day of Google Search, IBM Watson, and Wolfram.

Part I. The Gordian knot : To Google or not to Google / Newton Lee : A brief history of time: from research to product ; Form follows function ; Google doodles ; I'm feeling lucky ; Have fun and keep Googling ; Gatekeeper of information ; Censorship of information ; Information warfare and connecting the dots ; Information silos and prison of ideas ; Knowledge of good and evil ; Google's mantra: don't be evil ; Google for eduction ; The closing of the American mind ; The opening of the American mind ; Internet revolution and collective consciousness ; Alphabet slogan: do the right thing ; Philanthropy ; Moon landing and a little help from my friends ; Faith in God and trust in Google -- Google my religion: unraveling the Gordian knot of religious, moral, and political entanglement / Newton Lee : Book of Genesis and theory of relativity ; Information war and the blame game ; Infinite diversity in infinite combinations ; Questioning one's religion ; Religion and science ; Religious radicalization ; Children in war and peace ; Terrorism and Abrahamic religions ; Ten plagues of Egypt ; Xenophobia and Islamophobia ; Capital punishment and rehabilitation ; Nine familial rehabilitation ;…