Comments on: What is the Google Grid?

By: Luffemann

Luffemann — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:42:50 +0000

Great article thanks – just think a little bit further – what if “someone” had a patent for this?

that would be really fantastic or what?

By: Adrian Eden

Adrian Eden — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:45:38 +0000

Google is the driving force behind The Media Revolution.

By: The Search Continues « AGuzStory

The Search Continues « AGuzStory — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:31:59 +0000

[...] In the second half of The Search, John Batelle goes on to detail the further evolution of Google, spending some length on the intitial public offerring, and extrapolating with some speculation about where the technology-media industry is headed in the future. Oh the Places [We’ll] Go! when the Web fully assumes the role of the next great computing platform! How simultaneously sweet and scary is the idea of a Google Grid?? Batelle raises the public/privacy issue in the context of reverse directories. It’s funny to think that people are generally okay with their information being publicly accessible (i.e. phone numbers and addresses), but it is not until a middle man (in this case, Google) connects those dots and makes it easy to identify that personal information that people begin to hit the panic button (since I don’t have a land line, I looked up my dad’s phone number for kicks); this phenomenon Batelle deems “the balance between a right to privacy and a right to know.” We can certainly all give thanks that the USA PATRIOT Act was renewed! [...]

By: Michaelangel0

Michaelangel0 — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 08:21:24 +0000

well to me the google grid is something pretty attractive, but it has a lot of downsides…

Google is gaining influence in the world every second, and frnkly i’m getting worried it’ll eventually become a consortium too large to remain “innocent” and “hippy” as it seems to be at the moment for many people. Their mottos not to be evil, to preserve information and to bring everybody the same access to content already start to be failed principles with the google.cn affair.

If they set up such a thing as the Google Grid, how can we be sure it isn’t goig to become our “My Documents” folder? How can we trust our files to such a company?

People already began doing so with the GMAIL DRIVE hack (it “seems” not to be officially supported by google but don’t they have the means to prevent such usage if they really don’t want it?) and keep files on google’s servers on a daily basis. That’s something i don’t feel i’m prepared to do with half of my My Documents files, not to mention the rest… If they plan to set up a global client operating system like some sources say, they’ll have the power to look at any user’s files whenever they want.

Then the government will have the ability to investigate it all, build statistics on people, which may disturb some.

The EPIC video leads to thinking google would end up building profiles on people. Who wants their personality analysed by bots?

Yet the customization of content by automatic means is more attractive than the hundreds of forms we get to see asking for our interests and hobbies. The video shows Google has the potential to bring an end to those steps of customization.

By: Brad Franklin

Brad Franklin — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:04:40 +0000

This video is amazing. It is so visionary. For anyone who is mildly interested to the avid futurist, this video speaks to what the future really might be like.
From early science fiction to the “Back to the Future” series, media speculates about the future. Usually it is wrong. We do not all have robots in our homes by now as predicted forty years ago. No. The future looks very different from what was predicted.
But this video presentation from Google shows a more realistic, rather than “science fiction” vision of the next ten years.