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offline Terence Hill from Germany on 2010-02-10 11:18 [#02365997]
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wtf, google?

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it makes perfect sense. if it's not them, it'll be Apple.
I'm usually the first to dismiss the Orwell/Huxley-swinging
fear mongerers, but suddenly it all feels just wrong on a
deep level. Not that it's suddenly coming out of nowhere
actually, but seeing a video like this makes me feel dizzy:
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it seems like a made up ad in a dystopian sci-fi flick,
except it is not.


 

offline ijonspeches from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2010-02-10 11:38 [#02366001]
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adds up to something,
how are they gonna lure us into speech-to text-to speech?
that "voice" seems so unuseful to me


 

offline Guybrush from the white room on 2010-02-10 11:39 [#02366002]
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what about cloud computering


 

offline lupus yonderboy from 1970. (United Kingdom) on 2010-02-10 11:45 [#02366004]
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it's when your hard drive basically exists online so
faceless monster corporations can control and access your
every document and file - saving you the utter horror if
having to carry a USB drive in your pocket.

we're all doomed. the golden age of the net is over. now
it's just going to find really efficient ways of quietly
shafting us all.


 

offline Phresch from fucking Trondheim (Norway) on 2010-02-10 11:51 [#02366005]
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thoughts on google buzz?


 

offline lupus yonderboy from 1970. (United Kingdom) on 2010-02-10 11:53 [#02366006]
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a way for google to get in on facebook and twitters
profiling data for marketing.


 

offline PAW from STL (United States) on 2010-02-10 11:55 [#02366007]
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boring


 

offline Guybrush from the white room on 2010-02-10 12:01 [#02366011]
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lol, i know :) i was merely throwing it into the equation
- i should be clearer about these things. cloud computing
leaves you entirely at the mercy of someone else. its
disempowering.

and you're right about the *golden age* - it is over, or it
has at least peaked. the internet will become more and more
enclaved, like the old service provider communities that all
seemed to be based on AOL, except it will most likely
consist of a few choice services like gmail, twitter,
youtube, facebook, etc... to be honest i'd be interested to
see how many people venture outside of these sites on a
regular basis...but thats another thought for another day.

it pains me to say that the ipad is probably a good
indication of where we're headed. people harping on about it
being underpowered and omitting obvious features are missing
the point.

the future is more depressing than scary though. the
business don't wan't to control us, they just want to sell
us shit. endless streams of shit we don't need. fucking A.
:-/


 

offline lupus yonderboy from 1970. (United Kingdom) on 2010-02-10 12:03 [#02366012]
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sorry. i misread your comment=]


 

offline Terence Hill from Germany on 2010-02-10 12:04 [#02366014]
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well i mean the thing is, no one actually has a clue,
much like with the pig flu, so there are lots of 'opinions
on the matter', but as it looks now google are really simply
trying to make even more gigantic shitloads of money by
selling ads basically, it's what they do. Only they are
turning into this waaay too powerful data dragon kind of
thing?

googledude 1: "hey look googledude 2, we're accumulating
massive amounts of contextual, fine grained data about
peoples' personalities, those funny humans simply tell us
all about themselves and their interaction among each other,
and we also have really smart computer scientists who are
constantly improving our algorithms to make sense of that
data. in fact it looks like we are going to have
automatically generated, incredibly precise psycho-grams of
a large part of this planet's population in a couple of
years at latest. We are the leaders of an entirely new age
of predictive mass-pychology. also they are pretty much
hooked on our ubiquitous services by now."

googledude 2: "yee whatev, let's just sell more ads."

eeeh?


 

offline lupus yonderboy from 1970. (United Kingdom) on 2010-02-10 12:06 [#02366015]
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we'll all be dixie flatlines by 2020.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2010-02-10 13:00 [#02366028]
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i have my theories


 

offline Guybrush from the white room on 2010-02-10 13:04 [#02366030]
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google has your theories


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2010-02-10 13:05 [#02366032]
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bravo, A+


 

offline Terence Hill from Germany on 2010-02-23 12:05 [#02368181]
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This is the hard-won realization from inside the Google
search engine, culled from the data generated by billions of
searches: a rock is a rock. It’s also a stone, and it
could be a boulder. Spell it “rokc” and it’s still a
rock. But put “little” in front of it and it’s the
capital of Arkansas. Which is not an ark. Unless Noah is
around. “The holy grail of search is to understand what
the user wants,” Singhal says. “Then you are not
matching words; you are actually trying to match
meaning.”


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