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This article makes me a bit worried about Google. It reminds me of emperors and sultans (e.g. Sergei and Page) manipulated by their courtiers (e.g. Chan).
by prewett 16y ago
This article makes me a bit worried about Google. It reminds me of emperors and sultans (e.g. Sergei and Page) manipulated by their courtiers (e.g. Chan).
- dstein 16y agoMy tinfoil hat theory is that Google is attempting to be the router for all of humanity's computation and communication.
- lurker19 16y agoThat is basically Google's mission statement as laid out in their IPO docs : to organize all the world's information. We wrongly thought that was just a fancy phrase for webcrawling.
- dstein 16y agoBut the strategies they are using now are a lot more sinister than they initially seemed. They're not just organizing links to data, they actually want be a sort of universal turing machine. They don't want any two people to communicate with eachother without going through a Google server. Between language translation, Google Talk, Chrome laptops, Gmail... they're not even being coy about it anymore.
- paulrademacher 16y agoA good company empowers its employees at all levels to present arguments upwards.