Thought Distillery

Ah, dearest Claudia… consider this wacky sci-fi, but I envision a time in the not so distant future when a computer network such as Google will become the collective intelligence for all humans! Google will know more about me and everyone else than we can even remember about ourselves. It will become the brain of the human race, while each human is but a mere neuron within its complex network. At some point, humans will probably become expendable after all their thoughts and ideas have been assimilated into the Google monster. Such a rosy picture, isn’t it? And if you think this isn’t gonna happen, well its already starting: Google is now testing out it G-Mail email service which will scan through all incoming/outgoing email in order to (innocently?) serve up relavent ads to its subscribers. The problem here is that this email service will learn more about its customers than I think is appropriate. There is way too much potential for abuse! We may trust our benevolent Google today, but give it too much power and it will eventually corrupt as history proves time and time again.

Hmm, I think I need a chocolate chip cookie!

Yeah, great. Say, uh, can I have one of those…chocolate chip,eh?

Katie, after a bit of thought I too decided that directly linking to my social grid persona was a bit too revealing. So I’ve removed the direct association between it and Thought Distillery. I’ll still keep on with the Social Grid project as it is intriguing, but I’ll try to maintain a bit more anonymity.