Google's quest for everything cutting edge, starting with the cyber realm in the beginning and branching off to the outside world, most recently with military based companies in robotics and also hiring big ticket artificial intelligence researchers, like Ray Kurzweil, definitely smacks of a de-facto monopoly and is eerily reminiscent of the rise of 'Cyberdine Systems' in the Terminator series. If there is to be a de-facto meme or hyper-intelligence mind/brain complex that becomes autonomous, it's desire control region would most likely be Google, gobbling up other little dreamer types with Microsoft trying to not become a hard, fibrous lump left over. The rest of the brain complex, such as people and governments and churches and so on, who used to act as the impulse control centres? They could be seen as being damaged or absorbed by this hyper-tech google dominated realm.
The truth is, Google (and yes, many others in the mainly computer and communications realm) are every intelligence agency and military blocks wet-dream, and with recent whistleblowing by Edward Snowden and Mr. Assange (who got the ball rolling) illustrates this.
The question becomes: will these former 20 and 30 somethings -call them the kids- and their legion of their original followers and users (call them their 'friends') take on the evil and nosy spy agencies and war machines, or will the kids become evil and join the spies and militaries and become the 'evil' they always bitched about? Will that force (more and more?) people onto a Darknet/Darkweb, dark alleys, up-state New York or Canada or Timbuktu. etc., because of lack of money, power, access, paranoia, political assylum, the need for privacy, and more- 'forced' to 'live' (i.e., operate their modern lives) in places where 'real evil' people hang out, like 'axe-murderers' and pedophiles, rapists?
Or, regardless, will simply the fact that the hyper-rapid rise or spread/adoption of these 'potentially wicked' technologies and abilities simply outsource 'everything/everybody' rendering most of us useless and collapsing the economy? And if that happens, will Google Save us? After all, their 'unofficial' tag line was, "Don't Be Evil."
Because, after all....(if you live in the developed-
ish world and have decent access to technology), you can just google it...or just Bing it, if Bill Gates makes a 'comeback' for the masses.
Remember: Apple and Google and many others started up in garages. But, if the economy in those free-enterprise areas collapse from the weight and hyper-rise and outsourcing/making most jobs irrelevant
from the very guys who got rich from out of those garages, will people be able to making anything out of their garages at all...and the ones who do, will they become 'button-down oxford psychos' to quote 'Fight Club', and if so should we worry? And if we worry, will the Military order in some Google Attack Drones.
For now, here's a great robot learning and buying site. Make sure you program these robots according to the Golden Rule...but then again, who really follows that one anyways? So, maybe you should start building lots of robots and computer software for yourself....and your friends.
Laughing Uncomfortably Out Loud
-Paul von Dubrovnik
http://www.robotshop.com/blog/en/personal-artificial-intelligence-12651
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_evil
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Google's Atlas Robot, "Shouldering the Weight of the World, or what?"
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Deja deja-vu...:)
