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  1. Sep 2018
    1. Yet, for all Sullivan's attempts at realism, Google's often haughty attitudes have intimated that it really is the trustworthy encyclopedia of the world

      Does google realize that people may begin to distrust the search engine more?

    2. Many at Google believe that the next step in "human" development is to insert a chip into people's brains. That chip will, essentially, be a Google search engine that tells your brain what to say or think.

      This connects to the novel because the head nurse wishes to control people with drugs and the log book.

    3. "One of the big issues that we're pondering is how to explain that our role is to get you authoritative, good information, but that ultimately people have to process that information themselves,

      This connects to the novel because as we read, we find that Chief is finding the truth of the ward due to McMurphy's interference.

    4. "We're not a truth engine."Yet so many people think it is. So many have abdicated their own sense of judgment in favor of the ease of pressing a few buttons to get the answer.

      People accept the answers that google gives them instead of doing work and researching themselves.

    5. But do you ever stop to think that what you see when you Google something may not be, well, true?

      This connects to the theme because those in the ward had never stopped to doubt their reality until McMurphy arrived.