After an awesome first weekend in Bermuda organised by Grandpa Spanner with Friday evening drinks as the sun set over the sea followed by a night out, early up for Rugby, a round of golf (well, I looked for my ball and hurried to keep up with those playing golf), a braai, a booze cruise and a Karaoke evening... followed by a chilled Sunday (doing my washing) and beach hunting, I finished off by finishing `The Google Story'.
The book isn't well written but the thought of all the possibilities of the `Age of Ideas' really does get me quite excited.
Remembering back how hard it was to find relevant material to read up on when doing my thesis... I would have killed for Google Scholar which searches through academic reference material. Now they are busy digitising every book they can starting with universities of Oxford, Harvard, Stanford, Michigan and others. The aim... every book ever written. Wow. I have often spoke on MIT and their free courseware. The really is no boundary to the access we could have to all of human knowledge.
It also opens questions up about what privacy is. I recently got a little freaked out by Google when writing an email to someone and the ads being rather too perceptive about the content... they recommended a psychologist! I think we may have to get over the whole privacy thing. So what if we live in a world where everyone could find out the truth about you. The reason that scares us is because people aren't accepting and open minded. We live behind facades.
The old question of what you would do if you were on a desert island and no one would ever find out is not necessarily so far from the truth. We go through our lives often doing things we expect no one to ever find out about.
Why are we so scared?
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