Plato at the Googleplex / Goldstein, Rebecca

What would the ancient Greek philosopher make of the twenty-first-century Google headquarters? A dazzling exploration of the role of ancient philosophy in modern life from the acclaimed writer and thinker.

Investigates the role of philosophy in twenty-first-century society through an imaginative dialogue a la Plato's dialogues. Plato comes to life again in the twenty-first-century and embarks on speaking tours, offering his take on things like Google, crowd sourcing, politics, and whether or not science has the ability to do away with philosophy.