Thursday, January 12, 2006
Google and the Eternal Life Fantasy
After revealing the secret of MySpace, let's examine Google.
Wall Street worships Google like it worships money. It's been suggested that people worship money because they no longer believe in their immortality and money seems to last forever. It seems like the Internet will last forever. Long after we're gone, it seems like everything we've done here will remain and just as we've gotten a sense of the permanence of the Internet, Google has come to represent it. Even the name Google is similar to googol, a number that is forever.
Google's technology is good, but it's not a big deal. It's not what merits our attention. If Google is heaven, is there a hell?
Wall Street worships Google like it worships money. It's been suggested that people worship money because they no longer believe in their immortality and money seems to last forever. It seems like the Internet will last forever. Long after we're gone, it seems like everything we've done here will remain and just as we've gotten a sense of the permanence of the Internet, Google has come to represent it. Even the name Google is similar to googol, a number that is forever.
Google's technology is good, but it's not a big deal. It's not what merits our attention. If Google is heaven, is there a hell?
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"If Google is heaven, is there a hell?"
Urm, Win98? :-D just dropping by after seeing ur donation on Wikipedia.
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Urm, Win98? :-D just dropping by after seeing ur donation on Wikipedia.
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