Ancient Greece had the Oracle at Delphi. The Shang dynasty had oracle bones. Contemporary America has Google.
Earlier this month, Lawrence Summers, President Obama’s top economic adviser, unveiled a new class of tea leaf to gauge the direction of the American economy: Google searches. The number of queries for “Great Depression,” which surged earlier in the year, had declined sharply, Mr. Summers noted. Economic anxiety is abating. The economy is probably turning the corner.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/opinion/31fri4.html?nl=technology&emc=techupdateema4
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