Sunday, February 18, 2007

Google as Meta-Research

In his famous essay "Within the Context of No Context," George Trow noted:

In the New History, nothing will be judged, only counted.


The New History is our present history, and it is a history of demographics, of preference, and of choice. This new form of history requires a different mode of historical record-keeping. Fortunately, Google is our official historian.

I'm talking about Google Zeitgeist, and we may consider it an accurate measure of our times.

1 comment:

Cliff said...

Also check out Epic 2015. Not really useful for the future, but useful for the present.