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The evangelists of cyberspace tout the power it confers on users to assemble a universe of information, shop effortlessly virtually anywhere and communicate instantly across continents.
The day before, while I'd browsed in the tourist information shop in Brisbane's main retail drag, one of the assistants, seeing me pause at a rack of North Stradbroke Island brochures, had said emphatically "paradise island" – a phrase so twee that I inwardly groaned.
This somewhat illogical set-up - in which our medical care is paid for by a third party - leads to overuse of the system, as individuals don't feel the need to gather information, shop for prices or seriously consider whether the services they receive are worth their cost.
PCs and the Internet have profoundly changed the way we access information, shop, view media, communicate, socialize, and spend our time.
Who wouldn't rather say "Internet" than "the thing that allows us to have access to global information, shop from our Barcaloungers and receive junk mail without going to the mailbox?" What's more fascinating is the shifting meanings of established words, like making "issue" a synonym for "problem".
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For certain categories of searches — travel information, shopping comparisons and financial data, for example — Google has begun presenting links to its own related services.
This means that they have reached an elementary level and indicates that they: Can understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance (eg very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).
The move is perhaps the most aggressive countermeasure a major search engine has taken against the growing number of sites that specialize in searching specific categories, like jobs, medical information, shopping or travel.
Beyond those trillion pages lies an even vaster Web of hidden data: financial information, shopping catalogs, flight schedules, medical research and all kinds of other material stored in databases that remain largely invisible to search engines.
Big money donors now purchase access to power both through political campaigns and policy information shops.
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