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Fascinating stuff — even if I am Barry. The Winston Smith reference is as ominous as it is likely.
What really freaks me out though, Dr Sharl, is we’re making serendipitous Google-related posts. A tinfoil-helmet thing I suppose…
Which one’s Barry?
Oui…
This is BRILLIANT stuff, thought-provoking, chilling, and right on the money, paranoia as a high-art form. Thanks Sharleena for finding this! It’s the next logical step I’d have talked about in Teenage Nervous Breakdown…if I’d been writing it in 2014.
So then, will the “have-nots” live like the blanks in Terry Gilliams’s Brazil? Out of The System? Should Goog… er, ePIC find a way to know them aside from the internet? Would it be worthy if they don’t qualify as valuable customers but just as media consumers? Would it be worthy even for the “have-nets” that don’t qualify as valuable customers? Is it already?
Yeah, ok, i guess it is. Every person could be a good customer in some place, some time…
Maybe it’s fuel for the next book, David! :-)
But since this was presented in a menacing tone, did you really think that these ideas were threatening ?
It’s interesting that you see this way of presenting the link as threatening, since it’s the way the Amazon site is presented when you have an account (for instance, “Hello, Bertanya. We have recommendations for you.
(If you’re not Bertanya, click here.”) And it’s true, for some persons, this is threatening; those guys know your name, when you open the page, and more, they know what to recomend to you…
Wether or not is threatening the fact that many of the people who have access to the net is going to be spontaneous “editors” and “journalists”; and that this could lead to the extinction of the press the way we know it now, i don’t really know. I certainly see as threatening that ONE BIG company is going to manage all that information… according to the documentary :-)
Bertanya, i’m rereading your question and maybe you were referring to the way things are presented just in the documentary (not in my post). In that case forget about the first part of my reply LOL WTF111!
Exactement…