Posted on 05/17/2018 6:06:54 PM PDT by caww
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.
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Drudge Also has it up........
“Don’t be evil”
What a freakin JOKE.
Well past time for GoogleFacebookAmazonApple to be busted up.
Agree...they should be broken up but I don’t see that happening any time......control of ‘social media’ is one of the foundational platforms the Globalists need to control the narratives.......just as control of the Internet will again be an issue soon.
Google = American STASI, in a convenient electronic format.
Well China does have control there.
The concept is based on Lamark’s discredited theory that an organism’s needs directs its evolution. They think that while it doesn’t work for genes, it may work for behavior. It sound implausible but very scary at the same time since all behaviors will be tracked and somehow modified to the greater good. At least that’s what I think they mean.
Social Engineering. What’s not to like?
The leftist brain and way of thinking is so damaged; they actually think manipulating society like that would be a good thing rather than letting it transform and grow organically.
Too bad nature hasn’t eliminated them from the gene pool already.
This is the Biblical Beast of Revelation.
Why not put it on a religious thread header so we can comment on that note.....I’m not sure what you mean and just dropping that line doesn’t explain to any who are not familiar with Prophetic things. We can link it from here.
Some folk are waiting for the all seeing eye.
The all seeing eye is already in operation, via the Web and computers of today.
Control and management of US _citizens_ is only a moment away, dark state is already built and is ready to be fully enabled.
Well their agenda has nothing to do with what is good for society...it's all about positioning the populations like corralling up a heard of horses............same with the worlds resources etc. all under a body of officials of course who control it all for their benefit.
Hmm, you left out Microsoft? Basically the bottom line was the executive and judicial branches going after MS were more stupid and more corrupt than MS. That's how it always is, because smart people mostly start companies and create monopolies unlike the politician types who try to break them up.
As it turned out the separation of the browser from the OS that didn't happen didn't matter. Likewise some artificial separations that mighrt be proposed will not happen and will not matter. The successors to all four of those companies will be new services that work around the problems of your interactions being tracked and sold. Facebook didn't nixing 600 million accounts for no reason. Those accounts are circumventing their business model.
This Google X character is articulating in a very superficial way, ideas about human behavior and societies which have been studied for decades. A brilliant, young, ignorant mind.
The more people use Google or gmail, the more data they get for their Machine Learning algorithms and search optimization and the better their searches are. What's the alternative to Google? Bing? It's ok, but even with Microsoft's billion$$, it doesn't have the data to compare searches with Google -- google is just too good. ditto for maps - HERE maps etc. can't compete.
One can build a new search engine based on a different parameter, but it won't have the same level of data (see duckduckgo - it doesn't keep track of you, but the searches are nowhere as good as google
Facebook -- I have friends around the world and they are on that platform. The more people on FB, the more it encourages others to get on FB. I was on Orkut and Myspace too, but the majority of people migrated to FB and FB is the default space for social media along with Whatsapp and Instagram (both FB owned). You could argue about FB selling Instagram and Whatsapp, but these would only dent some of the business and not really take away the money-making section.
Finally Amazon - come on, their profit margin is like 2% overall and they lose money on a lot of stuff. Their business is volume. No one can compete at those prices. Besides which their customer support is terrific - only Zappos is better (and it's owned by Amazon).
For me there is no alternative place to buy e-books, and for buying a lot of other stuff, I find Amazon very competitive. It would be hard to impossible (depending on the product) to move away from Amazon
Apple - yes, it can easily be broken -- unlike the others, it is primarily a product and services company without network effect (except for iMusic and, to some extent Applepay) -- but the apple music area is being overtaken by Spotify and other streaming companies while their Applepay faces stiff competition from a number of other sources
I don’t “Facebook”, but I understand the benefits it may offer people. My teens and their friends view Facebook as something used by “old people”, and that doesn’t bode well for it. I was watching an interview where a talking head described how social media is here to stay but it will change; too many FB users experience negative feelings from it.
Time for antitrust action on the near monopolists Google and Facebook.
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