Why people need Google to tell them what to do next

This, interestingly, is a matter of Google letting societal chips fall where they may, to be tidied by lawmakers and legislation as best they can, while the erection of new world architecture continues apace.

Perhaps the company should issue children with free “training wheels” identities at birth, terminating at the age of majority.

One could then either opt to connect one’s adult identity to one’s childhood identity, or not.

Childhoodlessness, being obviously suspect on a résumé, would give birth to an industry providing faux adolescences, expensively retro-inserted, the creation of which would gainfully employ a great many writers of fiction.

Gibson is the author of the forthcoming novel “Zero History.”