NOTES

Chapter 1

1. Statistics from Matthew Gray, “Web Growth Summary,” 1996, accessed March 14, 2014, http://www.mit.edu/people/mkgray/net/web-growth-summary.html.

2. Jack Clark, “If This Doesn’t Terrify You… Google’s Computers OUTWIT Their Humans,” The Register, November, 15, 2013, accessed February 10, 2014, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/15/google_thinking_machines/.

3. Larry Heck, “The Conversational Web,” Microsoft Research, December 2012, accessed February 10, 2014, http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/193045/conversational-web.pdf, 40.

4. My friends in computer science will balk at this simplification. They will tell me, “Cats are indeed not generally alive, and in fact there are more dead cats than alive cats throughout history,” ...

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