From The Magazine : Radar Online
Google controls your e-mail, your videos, your calendar, your searches… What if it controlled your life?
“Greg landed at San Francisco International Airport at 8 p.m., but by the time he’d made it to the front of the customs line, it was after midnight. He’d emerged from first class, brown as a nut, unshaven, and loose-limbed after a month on the beach in Cabo (scuba diving three days a week, seducing French college girls the rest of the time). When he’d left the city a month before, he’d been a stoop-shouldered, potbellied wreck. Now he was a bronze god, drawing admiring glances from the stews at the front of the cabin.
Four hours later in the customs line, he’d slid from god back to man. His slight buzz had worn off, sweat ran down the crack of his ass, and his shoulders and neck were so tense his upper back felt like a tennis racket. The batteries on his iPod had long since died, leaving him with nothing to do except eavesdrop on the middle-age couple ahead of him.
“The marvels of modern technology,” said the woman, shrugging at a nearby sign: Immigration—Powered by Google…”
All of this is true and somehow predictable, but there is this point that in a world that everybody needs inter-connected apps and maximum inter-operability, there will be eventually a company in charge of (almost) every app, or web app you are using.
Let it be google, Microsoft, Apple or any other not-evil-now company. It is the same story. After sometime that company hold all your data, so takes control of your life, because in 2008 information is your life (at least for many!).
Not everybody has the knowledge or time for playing with web hosts, mail servers, and etc to create their own online suit. Instead they rely on companies like Google that start with hosting your emails and end up hosting your life (and perhaps, monitoring and controlling it).
Even if this companies go under government control, who will control those freaking governments that already took control of every single move in your life?!
Look around, check the biased media and our falsified life and millions of other things that direct us toward what some-few-selected decided for us for thousands of years. We are already there!
Internet is becoming the new religion and Google, Microsoft, and other giants are new churches of the new dark age!
