Chrisbb

If you think Google’s personalization options are all designed to make your life easier, you might want to give some thought as to where this might end. According to Andrew Keen, Google CEO Eric Schmidt has bold plans for Google to not just answer what we ask it, but tell us what’s good for us.

Here is how he described what he hoped the search engine would look like in five years: “The goal is to enable Google users to be able to ask the question such as ‘What shall I do tomorrow?’ And ‘What job shall I take?’ ”

Schmidt’s goal is not inconsiderable: By 2012, he wants Google to be able to tell all of us what we want. This technology, what Google co-founder Larry Page calls the “perfect search engine,” might not only replace our shrinks but also all those marketing professionals whose livelihoods are based on predicting ? or guessing ? consumer desires.

Am I the only one who’s seen 2001: A Space Odyssey, Matrix or Terminator? Hello, people, don’t let the computers get so smart that they try telling us what to do.

Google Odyssey 2012 - "I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that"

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Lolli

....so what do you suggest we do?

ciaobox2007

i think you're going to have to start googling yourself chris. we can't leave it to 3rd parties anymore.

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does your face hurt?

guest1234567

LOL, let's not stop there. I'm burning my books today!!! I'm not going to let Mark Twain tell me how to think. That bitch Agatha Christie can burn in hell. John le Carré can go spy on someone else.

I'm not gonna take it anymore!!!!

And am I the only person who thought The Matrix sucked big time. No lie, I fell asleep the first two times I watched it. M2 was ok, M3 was a complete waste of film.

BleedingPinky

Uuugh! Thay made me watch 2001 on a monday morning at classroom when I was at high school. Can you imagine that? At least the teacher was hot.

Vicariously I

A search engine telling people what to do with their day and reading a book by Mark Twain are two completely different things.

This is complete blasphemy and I hope some imaginary God teaches you a lesson.

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Malkavian

Well, i can tell search engine to go fuck itself. I can't really tell that to Mark Twain and Agatha Christie, on the account of them being dead. Unless rumors of Twain's death had been greatly exaggerated again...

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Chrisbb

throw your computer away lolli. its the only way

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Vicariously I

True but if you tell the search engine to fuck itself you'd just end up with a few million pornsite results and perhaps detailed instructions on to go about fucking oneself.

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"It's hard to face reality when you're busy living in the American Dream."

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Malkavian

Hmmm... Just did. A million porn sites would be even awesomer if some of them didn't include Dick Cheney.

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Farra