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Clickbait book title. It has little to do with Plato and even less to do with Googleplex.
by gowld 6y ago
Clickbait book title. It has little to do with Plato and even less to do with Googleplex.
- FabHK 6y agoIt's about the relevance of ancient philosophical ideas to modern society's dilemmata, and progress in philosophy over the ages, in a fictionalised setting where Plato visits Google. I think "clickbait" is a bit harsh here.
- ashika 6y agoi think its a fair condensation. the discussion of google is pretty incidental and given the lack of any actual official connection to GOOG, i think we should be shrewd in our assessment; it's in the title to sell more books.
- FabHK 6y agoI hadn't thought of that, because I knew the premise. I wouldn't say that it's been done on purpose to sell more books, but I could absolutely understand, now that you mention it, if someone bought the book based on the title and would be extremely disappointed by it. (I mean, I knew sort of what it was about and was disappointed...)