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As we all know, love, and use every day, Google's founding changed the way people interact with information forever. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Stanford students, founded Google on September 4th, 1998 in a garage in California. For the first time, everyday users could now type in a question and instantly find answers from all over the world. This was a huge shift for how people learned, communicated, and understood the world around them. 

While Ishiguro was writing this book, the rise of instant knowledge swept the world. However, in Never Let Me Go, the students at Hailsham were isolated and only given the information that the guardians allowed them to have access to. The real world was expanding curiosity and independent learning, while the clones lived in a controlled environment where the truth about their lives was hidden from them. I think that this shows just how shocking their isolation really is, and it makes the novel feel more real when you think about how things could've looked differently if they had access to the same information as the outside world.

Citation: 

Hart, David. “On the Origins of Google.” National Science Foundation, 17 Aug. 2004, www.nsf.gov/news/origins-google.