Dystopia! Utopia! Dystopia! Utopia! Let's call the whole thing off!Epic 2015 is a speculative look at a near future where all information is aggregated, personalized and owned by an amalgamation of Google and Amazon. The story started as hard science fiction--a preachy cautionary tale. Now it pretty accurately reflects the state of the web today. Googlezon is already here, and here, and here, and here and here.
But is it really so horrible to have a customized information feed? What about a media monopoly? How will Google change us?
"What does the world look like through the lens of Google?; How is Google's ubiquity affecting the production and dissemination of knowledge?; and how has the corporation altered the rules and practices that govern other companies, institutions, and states?"
Siva Vaidhyanathan is exploring these questions and more in his upcoming book, The Googlization of Everything: How One Company is Disrupting Culture, Commerce and Community...and Why We Should Worry. I worry a bit about Google's far-reaching arm - in particular the fact that it has saved all of my email correspondence since 2005. I think it's imperative that we look critically at how the participatory web is changing us and continue to learn to hack the system.
art by Randy Siegel
2 comments:
Daxsu,
I appreciate all the interesting and important information you're sharing!
Kinaka49
Thanks Kinaka. I see you have mastered the embedding video process as well. Good job. Now onto creating our own video and images. Peace.
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