Human Kind and Google
Ever since the rise of communication between human beings, "function" has had a cousin called "trend", "fashion" or "leisure". One can imagine the cave-drawings of hunter-gatherer societies not only to represent the prey, but also the nice examples.
Skip a few thousands of years and here is Google.
Humans made the internet, now we can search for "cave-drawings". I just found out that google itself it keeping track of its own trend-formation. Take a look at Google Zeitgeist
Oh, and then there is the Google stock that keeps rising, the Google venture with Sun, the Google takeover of Microsoft Directors, the entry of the word Google into Oxford Dictionary and the first human baby to have been called "Google".
Oh, and I won't link all these facts and events, you can just go and google them, at google.
You lazy bastard!



It was after the Gulf War that his mother and boyfriend at the time decided to 'descend' from the Holy land and set sail towards The Hague, being the birthplace of Even-Zohars
mother. Jonathan managed well in Grade school and High school, so the
next logical step was the University, the infinite source of knowledge.
After speculating on Industrial Design, Social Geography and Journalism
it was the study of History at Leiden that turned out to be his
decision.
Now, four years into the study, matters have only become more
complicated as this student advances towards World History; meaning the
complete array of fields a historian may implement in explaining the
entire past of the entire world to fellow men. It is especially the
philosophical character of World History that attracted Jonathan.
For him there is only one question that stands above all others like a
lonely chuchtower in some Flemish village, which asks the cause of the
Western Rise and the Industrial Revolution. Furthermore, the role of the
European self- and worldimage throughout its history may explain the
role of Europe in the Eurasian Human Web. Thus, the direct contact
between Islam and Christianity is to be investigated. Were Muslims
constantly on the verge of invading Europe? How did Arab people perceive
the 'barbaric' Christians? How was Science spread and how did the West
pick up knowledge form the Arabs or from further East? Europe and the
Islam are still not at peace, certainly not in the mind.
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