{"id":7348,"date":"2012-02-12T21:06:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T21:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=7348"},"modified":"2012-02-12T21:06:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T21:06:16","slug":"in-the-plex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2012\/02\/12\/in-the-plex\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Plex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently reading journalist\/historian Steven Levy&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Plex-Google-Thinks-Works-Shapes\/dp\/1416596585\">In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives<\/a><\/em> (Simon &amp; Schuster, April 2011).  At the half-way point through the book (Google is at the stage of throwing billion-dollar data centers around the planet), I can say it&#8217;s is wonderfully precise on the ancient history of the company.  I&#8217;ve taught lessons on the history of Google to undergraduates numerous times, so a lot of the events and personalities are familiar &mdash; but it&#8217;s great to now have a book that&#8217;s so authoritative.  I&#8217;d previously read and enjoyed Levy&#8217;s <em>Crypto: How the [Cryptography] Code Rebels Beat the Government, Saving Privacy in the Digital Age<\/em> (2002), and his new book is just as nearly structured, well researched, and elegantly written.  Highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently reading journalist\/historian Steven Levy&#8217;s In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives (Simon &amp; Schuster, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2012\/02\/12\/in-the-plex\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jurns-google-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}