Sounds like an steady plan to world domination via technology. Perhaps Google = a real life Skynet?
My thoughts exactly!
Twenty years ago 'we' speculated that 'the powers that be' or 'big brother' would have masses of information on every member of the population, from where they live, work, socialise, their political stance, who they know, what books they've read, what music they buy, which films they watch, parties they've attended recently, how trashed they got last monday night, any protests they've been involved in, whether they're for or against the war in Iraq or Afghanistan, whether or not the think 9/11 was an inside job and so on... Twenty years ago the question would have been "but how are they going to gather all this information?" Today the answer is simple... We willingly supply all this info for the whole world to see in the form of social networking. We leave electronic trails of our purchasing habits when shopping online. Our bank statements are available online (supposedly in a secure section, my arse!) showing exactly where our money comes from and goes to. It's all there and were not only embracing it but driving it forwards!
It's not just the internet though... we have satnav in our cars, CCTV in every town and city, CCTV in shops, bus stations, train stations, our mobiles phones can already be pin pointed to a location using triangulation so they'll know where we drive to and where we walk to.
The world is a very different place these days. With all this surveillance and the info they can gather about each and every one of us either makes it more secure or scarier than ever.
