Comments on: Is Google becoming our collective brain? http://www.lostateminor.com/2008/12/06/is-google-our-collective-brain/ Lost At E Minor: For creative people Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:30:44 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Zachttp://www.lostateminor.com/2008/12/06/is-google-our-collective-brain/#comment-243184 Zac Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:50:50 +0000 http://www.lostateminor.com/?p=11440#comment-243184 I think younger generations tackle privacy fears in the most powerful way possible: they ignore it and open up their lives via services like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and so on. A number of companies and individuals are also doing this too - negating the fear of information slippage by making all their 'information' public.So to stop using one of the most powerful resources available to us for fear of exposing that one eats pho isn't the right way to go about it, IMO.Shouldn't we embrace the machine and see what it can pump back to us if we think smartly about what we want to harness from our collective memes? I think younger generations tackle privacy fears in the most powerful way possible: they ignore it and open up their lives via services like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and so on. A number of companies and individuals are also doing this too – negating the fear of information slippage by making all their ‘information’ public.

So to stop using one of the most powerful resources available to us for fear of exposing that one eats pho isn’t the right way to go about it, IMO.

Shouldn’t we embrace the machine and see what it can pump back to us if we think smartly about what we want to harness from our collective memes?

]]> By: MrStickhttp://www.lostateminor.com/2008/12/06/is-google-our-collective-brain/#comment-242598 MrStick Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:30:54 +0000 http://www.lostateminor.com/?p=11440#comment-242598 I think this issue will be the technological question of our generation. "What should google do with its information?"But google does not control the input. We must remember that for every time we blame google for its non-stop march toward a privately owned incarnation of 1984 - we are the very people who give them the information.If I install google maps on my phone I have just made the following statement: "Finding the nearest Vietnamese restaurant is worth the price of google permanently storing the date, my name, my phone number, and the fact that I eat pho.”Google is becoming increasingly dangerous but there is a very simple way to stop its progression: stop using it. I think this issue will be the technological question of our generation. “What should google do with its information?”

But google does not control the input. We must remember that for every time we blame google for its non-stop march toward a privately owned incarnation of 1984 – we are the very people who give them the information.

If I install google maps on my phone I have just made the following statement: “Finding the nearest Vietnamese restaurant is worth the price of google permanently storing the date, my name, my phone number, and the fact that I eat pho.”

Google is becoming increasingly dangerous but there is a very simple way to stop its progression: stop using it.

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