Google has created an interesting new product for Android-based mobile devices called Google Goggles, which allows you to do visual searches based on images your phone’s camera captures. Needless to say, this is just one more step on the long road to the visual search revolution, as described in Pop Apocalypse. It’s all happening right on schedule, and each incremental step will seem — as this does! — real neat when it happens.
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Lee Konstantinou is a novelist and postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University.
He is the author of the novel Pop Apocalypse.

He is working on a second novel and a study of irony in postwar fiction called Countercultural Capital: The Problem of Irony in Postwar American Literature
Lee Konstantinou- From “Happy Days” to “Mad Men”
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