I’m heading back to the UK at the end of the month for my new book, What We Ask Google: A Surprisingly Hopeful Picture of Humankind. We’ll be diving into the world’s biggest publicly available dataset to see what it tells us about who we really are. From the delightfully mundane questions we ask every day—millions of us still need the internet to remind us ‘how to boil an egg’—to the profound ways we navigate grief and crisis, the data proves that we are never truly alone.
I would absolutely love to catch up, see some familiar faces, and explore this data with you in person. I will be doing a few public talks in the UK, and I’d be delighted if you could join me at any of the following stops:
📍 Monday, May 25th @ 6:00 PM – Cambridge I’ll be visiting the historic Heffers Bookshop to discuss the book. (Tickets and info)
📍 Thursday, May 28th @ 6:30 PM – London I will be speaking at the London School of Economics (LSE). (Tickets and info)
📍 Friday, May 29th @ 6:30 PM – London I will be at Waterstones Kensington for a talk with journalist Megan Carnegie and book signing. (Tickets and info)
Can’t make it in person? You can still catch some of the conversations I’ve been having in the UK! I recently joined Carl Miller on the Intelligence Squared podcast, where we talked about everything from green poo and ‘deadbutt’ to the endless, inevitable desire for human beings to help one another. It was a brilliant journey across both the sublime and the mundane. I also had a fantastic chat with Hugo Rifkind on Times Radio about how, despite the constant news cycle, our searches prove we care way more about our relationships, our pets, and what we are making for dinner. Looking at search data really is like peeking inside the world’s brain.
Lastly, if you are around on Monday, May 25th, be sure to tune into BBC Radio 5 Live at 12:00 PM, where I’ll be chatting live with Naga Munchetty just hours before my Cambridge event kicks off.
Simon Rogers 
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