Google Wants to Turn You Into a Cyborg

Google is no longer, at its core, a search engine. And its goal is not to help you find information, but to become an extension of your very self. That might sound alarmist or far-fetched--unless you watched Google I/O 2018, the company's annual developer conference, this week. The big takeaway from the conference is that the Google Assistant--think Alexa, but smarter--has displaced Google search as the company's central product, the one that binds all the others. Its scary-ambitious goal: To blur the line between human and machine to the point where they become literally indistinguishable.