Google just launched a nifty little ngram-visualizer. A search on words privacy, liberty, security gives you pause:
Thoughts?
Notes, thoughts, sketches.
Google just launched a nifty little ngram-visualizer. A search on words privacy, liberty, security gives you pause:
Thoughts?
Internet, http://goo.gl/epFNn – exponential , encryption http://goo.gl/tB87c – exponential, liberty http://goo.gl/SPtHo – negative slope. Indeed, things must be getting better. Freedom is kind of flatline, with small peaks around the 1940’s and 60’s but then in less demand. Representative for the collective writings around the globe ? Guess not, do the same plot for chinese books on internet.
Paranoia.
Actually, try that word alone, i did..
It gets downright scary if we relate all this to Plato and The Republic, how the tyrant rises out of democracy as a protector.
Fake and gay: somewhat surprising results and trends!
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=fake%2C+gay&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
Hur gick det för dissidenterna i Kina ?
Phrases ‘real thing, hypocricy’ not so suprising results. The real thingy peaked somwehere around 2000 while hypocricy on the rise. http://goo.gl/zRUfZ 😉