Google-Phonics, Or, ‘What Is the Sound of a Thousand Tech Workers Meditating?’
…pretty fast,” he explains, so he upgrades to the milli-phonic system—a thousand speakers—until this also fails to please. “So finally I got the googlephonic—the highest number of speakers before infinity.” He pauses dramatically before adding finally, “Sounds like shit.” In classic Martin style, he waits for the laughter to die down before adding the final punchline: “So I said, ‘Hey, maybe it’s the needle!’” The metaphor is apt. The gurus of Sili…
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