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Dr. Eowyn posted: " See that microchip above? How would you like that to
be implanted into your brain? That's what Google aims eventually to do.
While visiting Google's headquarters in Mountain View, in the San Francisco
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See that microchip above?
How would you like that to be implanted into your brain?
That's what Google aims eventually to do.
While visiting Google's headquarters in Mountain View, in the San Francisco
Bay Area, Ian Burrell reports for the UK's
*Independent*<http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/inside-google-hq-what-does-the-future-hold-for-the-company-whose-visionary-plans-include-implanting-a-chip-in-our-brains-8714487.html>,
July 20, 2013, that the world leader in Internet searches wants an even
higher profile.
With an annual revenue of more than $50 billion and handling as much as 90%
of Internet searches in the UK, Google now wants more -- much more.
Google wants to become our constant companion -- a personal assistant that
never stops working, capable of conversing naturally in any language.
(Natural language means the computer can understand what is being spoken,
e.g., that "tall" refers to height, and hold a conversation.) Ultimately,
as *Google's co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin* have asserted, *the
goal is to insert a chip inside your head for the most effortless search
engine imaginable.*
The first stage of this new level of "intimacy" (or intrusion) is already
here.
It is *Google Glass* -- a pair of glasses that weighs about the same as a
typical pair of sunglasses due to its largely titanium frame. You turn the
contraption on by tapping your finger on the right side of the frame where
all the technology is stored, or surreptitiously throwing your head back.
On a screen projected a few inches in front of your right eyeball is a
digital clock and the magic words "OK glass", the uttering of which takes
you to a range of task options: ask a question, take a picture, record a
video, get directions to, send a message to, make a call to, make a video
call to.
The idea of Google Glass (GG) is that you can walk down busy streets
receiving helpful facts – without needing to take your cell phone from your
pocket. The lure is that GG could end the urban hazard of pedestrians
staring at their smart phones instead of looking where they're going.
[image: Larry Page at
wedding]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/larry-page-at-wedding.jpg>
*Google's billionaire co-founder/CEO Larry Page walks down the aisle with a
bridesmaid, wearing a pair of Google Glass, at his brother-in-law's wedding
in early July 2013, in Croatia.
(Source<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2365942/Larry-Page-wears-Google-Glass-altar-glitzy-wedding-Croatia.html>
)*
At the moment, GG is a work in progress. Its prototype is called the
Explorer and the 10,000 Americans – mostly web developers and heavy
social-media users – who are trying the apparatus are called "explorers."
Burrell gave Google Glass a try, and reports that answering questions is
its central feature. It likes straightforward instruction such as "OK
Glass... Google – what is the height of [UK Prime Minister] David
Cameron?", returning within four seconds with an image of Cameron and a
computer voice saying "David Cameron is six feet zero inches tall". But
when Burrell asked for the name of the wife of Cameron's predecessor,
Gordon Brown, he was offered details of The Stranglers' 1982 pop song,
"Golden Brown."
Burrell also tried asking GG to take a picture. Three seconds after giving
the order, he had a shot (or film) that can be shared with friends on the
Google+ social network. One GG explorer recently used the eyeglasses to
snap a police arrest as it was taking place. Burrell's conclusion:
The potential of Google Glass is enormous. *The more you hand your life
over to Google, the more you get out of this technology.*
Google is also amassing a vast store of information called *the Knowledge
Graph*, which is growing at an exponential rate. When it launched in May
2012, Knowledge Graph was a pool of 3.5 billion facts on 500 million of the
world's most searched subjects. In a little over a year the knowledge held
on the Google servers has grown to 18 billion facts on around 570 million
subjects.
The Knowledge Graph is the base for *Google Now, the latest incarnation of
Google *which is personalizing the search engine by giving you a series of
bespoke "cards" as you log on. They tell you the local weather, the traffic
you might face on the way to work, details of your meetings and restaurant
bookings taken from your Google email account, your team's latest result
and so on.
*Scott Huffman*, Google's engineering director, says the company's
intention is to "transform the ways people interact with Google," which
means having conversations similar to those you would have with humans.
Huffman says, "If you look back 10 years there was a computer on my desk
and today there's a computer in my pocket and it still has a screen and a
keyboard. But fast forward a bit and… I think there is going to be a device
in the ceiling with microphones, and it will be in my glasses or my
wristwatch or my shirt. And like the Google Glass it won't have a keyboard…
you just say 'OK Google, blah-blah-blah' and you get what you want."
After *NSA (National Security Agency) whistleblower Edward Snowden*'s
revelations about the agency's *clandestine electronic-surveillance program
PRISM*, *Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page* hastened to deny *claims in
leaked NSA documents that Google – in parallel with other American internet
giants – had been co-operating with the spying program since 2009.* "Any
suggestion that Google is disclosing information about our users' internet
activity on such a scale is completely false," he said.
This is the same Google that aims eventually to implant a microchip in our
brains. Do you trust Google or any organization to do this?
I know my answer to that question!
See also an article in the *Daily
Mail*<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2321081/Scientists-hope-implant-microchips-generate-memories-human-brains-2-years.html>
**, May 7, 2013, about a group of U.S. researchers who say a microchip that
will help create memories in damaged brains (e.g., of Alzheimer's patients)
could be implanted into human volunteers in the next two years.
*~Eowyn*
*Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/>* |
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