Ghosts in our machines

Searching for what we've lost (via Google)

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There’s an old thread on what was Twitter, by the writer Sherri Turner, that I still think about, from time to time.

It starts: ‘I look at my mum’s old house on Google maps street view, the house where I grew up. It says ‘Image captured May 2009’. There is a light on in her bedroom. It is still her house, she is still alive, I a…