I’m reading Nicholas Carr’s “The Shallows”, and thoroughly enjoying it. Whether I agree with everything he says or not, he is eloquent and thought-provoking.

Google’s Silicon Valley headquarters… is the Internet’s high church, and the religion practiced inside its walls is Taylorism. The company, says CEO Eric Schmidt, is “founded around the science of measurement.” It is striving to “systematize everything” it does. “We try to be very data-driven, and quantify everything,” adds another Google executive… What Taylor did for the work of the hand, Google is doing for the work of the mind.