One Ring to Rule Them All

Google Voice centralizes calls to your home, office and cell--and transcribes messages

Mark Matcho for Time

Am I the only one who thinks Google is The Matrix? It's true! Google gives us the most wonderful free stuff--search, e-mail, productivity apps--and all we have to do in return is let it suck our souls.

Yes, Google gets to read my e-mail and many of my work documents. It knows more about me than my blessed wife does. And I'm fine with that, since--so far, anyway--it uses the data benignly, mainly to try to sell me stuff. (Good luck with that.) I am happy to be one of the millions of batteries that power Google. The more it feeds...

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