Bianca Bosker: Google Now’s Latest Trick: Outsourcing Your Brain

You can stop thinking now. That’s Google’s job.

Google took a step toward enabling us to outsource our brains with a new feature that taps into our personal data to automatically offer advice on what we should do or know next. The couch potato web is here, so just lean back and let Google take things from here.

Figuring out when to leave for a meeting, what to order at a new restaurant, or when to squeeze in a trip to the gym can all be decided for you by Google Now, a search feature for smartphones unveiled Wednesday at Google’s I/O developer conference. Google Now makes personal assistants look like milkmen — quaint symbols of a simpler, slower time.

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