{"id":77816,"date":"2018-04-14T12:02:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T19:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/googles-astounding-new-search-tool-will-answer-any-question"},"modified":"2018-04-14T12:02:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T19:02:22","slug":"googles-astounding-new-search-tool-will-answer-any-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/googles-astounding-new-search-tool-will-answer-any-question","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s astounding new search tool will answer any question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/googles-astounding-new-search-tool-will-answer-any-question.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if you could gather thousands of writers in a circle to discuss one question. What would optimist Thomas L. Friedman say about intervening in Syria, for example? Would chaos theorist Santo Banerjee concur?<\/p>\n<p>Google now has a way to convene that kind of forum\u2014in half a second. Speaking to TED curator Chris Anderson yesterday (April 13), legendary futurist Ray Kurzweil introduced \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/talktobooks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talk to Books\u201d<\/a> a new way to find answers on the internet that should bring pleasure to researchers, bookworms and anyone seeking to expand their thinking on a range of topics.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1252664\/talk-to-books-at-ted-2018-ray-kurzweil-unveils-googles-astounding-new-search-tool-will-answer-any-question-by-reading-thousands-of-books\/\">https:\/\/qz.com\/1252664\/talk-to-books-at-ted-2018-ray-kurzwei...-of-books\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Imagine if you could gather thousands of writers in a circle to discuss one question. What would optimist Thomas L. Friedman say about intervening in Syria, for example? Would chaos theorist Santo Banerjee concur? Google now has a way to convene that kind of forum\u2014in half a second. Speaking to TED [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,2018],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-ray-kurzweil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}