In honor of tonight's big speech, today's Google Psyche explores the state of our union. The results are as diverse as you might expect ("strong"! and also, "not good"!), with a nod to a Frank Rich op-ed thrown in for good intellectual measure.
Google Psyche is an exploration of the stories that the world's Internet searches tell. The company's autocomplete algorithm predicts the word a random web searcher is most likely to type next, providing a statistical probe for our collective consciousness.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/google-psyche-autocomplete-for-the-state-of-the-union-is/251889/
