More Google scary stuff:
Google has built a multibillion-dollar business out of knowing everything about its users. Now, a video produced within Google and obtained by The Verge offers a stunningly ambitious and unsettling look at how some at the company envision using that information in the future.
The video was made in late 2016 by Nick Foster, the head of design at X (formerly Google X), and a co-founder of the Near Future Laboratory. The video, shared internally within Google, imagines a future of total data collection, where Google helps nudge users into alignment with their goals, custom-prints personalized devices to collect more data, and even guides the behavior of entire populations to solve global problems like poverty and disease.
When reached for comment on the video, an X spokesperson provided the following statement to The Verge:
“We understand if this is disturbing — it is designed to be. This is a thought-experiment by the Design team from years ago that uses a technique known as ‘speculative design’ to explore uncomfortable ideas and concepts in order to provoke discussion and debate. It’s not related to any current or future products.”
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/17/17344250/google-x-selfish-ledger-video-data-privacy
Hmmmm
From Signs & Symbols in Christian Art by George Ferguson (Oxford University Press, 1961):
"The owl, since it hides in darkness and fears the light, has come to symbolize Satan, the Prince of Darkness. As Satan deceives humanity, so the owl is said to trick other birds, causing them to fall into the snares set by hunters.
"The owl also symbolizes solitude and, in this sense, appears in scenes of hermits at prayer. It[s] most ancient gift, however, is that of wisdom, and, with this meaning, it is sometimes shown with St. Jerome.
“In another sense, the owl is an attribute of Christ, who sacrificed Himself to save mankind, ‘To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. . .’ (Luke 1:79). This explains the presence of the owl in scenes of the Crucifixion.”
I assume it's probably the first meaning.
Was there a link to the video in that article?
Hmmm, indeed. “...and even guides the behavior of entire populations...”
It’s for the children.
Bkmk