'Google changed my life': The real-life subject of 'Lion' on tech's role in his miraculous story

Editors note: Imagine if every time you used Google, you were reminded of how you lost your family -- then found them many years later. That's how it is for Saroo Brierley, whose life story is the basis for Lion, nominated for six Oscars including Best Picture and Supporting Actor (Dev Patel, who plays Brierley as a young man). Brierley penned the following op-ed for Mashable about how technology -- which emerged in the years after he was lost -- was the only thing that allowed him to find his way back. Saroo Brierley (left) and the two young men who play him: Sunny Pawar and Dev Patel. We use Google every day to search for answers.