DIS 19, Fiat Lux: "Just Google It":
What It Really Is and When It's Appropriate

(as well as issues of Identity and Privacy)

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X. So, What is Google, Where Have They Been, and Where Are You Going?

A. What is Google? Where have they been?

B. Where is It going? Review from last week…

1. Home automation

2. Robots (see alternate view, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-12/google-has-made-a-mess-of-robotics) including autonomous cars

3. Space elevator (nothing since 2014?)

4. Clean energy

5. New drugs

6. Climate change and CC insurance (2011)

7. Cancer (Alphabet)

C. Leading question--What difference do you want to make?

1. “Top Google Influencers” at https://influence.co/category/google (try, education or universities)

2. “Companies are Scouring Social Networks, looking for the New “Influencers’”--what’s your Twitter score?

D. Turn-in Take Home Final, One Essay Question ("When is it NOT appropriate to just Google it?") Discussion

E. Course Evaluation at CCLE.UCLA.EDU

Updated: 6 March 2018; Created: 30 August 2006