The Burt Cohen Show - Is Google The New Medieval Church -04/27/14

There's a new religion out there. Up on a pedestal are the new information monopolies, which many believe in as infallible, purely scientific mechanisms that fix humanity's problems better than mere humans. Google and Comcast are the new all-powerful institutions which merely organize the world's information and are the sources of knowledge. Not unlike the Catholic Church of medieval times. In the concluding in a series on the power of the internet, guest on this show is media studies professor Kevin Healey. We ask the question who serves who: the internet or humanity?