The Po Show

Sign of the Times

Matthew and Tessa were discussing the age-old question of what came first, the chicken or the egg. It remains such an interesting debate :).

Then Tessa said, "Well, we could just GOOGLE IT!"

I loved that, the conviction that all knowledge is available on the web, that all would be revealed thanks to Google. These kids don't remember a time when answers of all kinds were not at your fingertips, literally. Information does not have to be actively sought out, but comes to you via a three word query.

Of course, they don't realize how the programming of search engines determines the responses to those queries, nor do they likely care. That's a sign that's hidden from view, behind the bright colorful letters. (Not that I'm trying to make Google sound ominous. I love Google, if only for giving me the gift of Gmail.)