Google Becomes a Bit Like Rome in 200 CE
February 23, 2010
Ouch. Google has “troubling blind spots.” You can read “Privacy, Complexity Seen as Google Blind Spots” and get the straight dope from a newspaper not too far from the Googleplex. For me the most interesting comment was:
“It’s this whole sense of hubris. They get to a certain size and think, ‘We don’t have to care,’ ” he said. “They are just roaming around, not defining themselves, and allowing their actions to be interpreted by whomever.
If on the money, the Google may have a more troubling decline than the Roman Empire. At Google speed, the collapse may take months, not centuries. Will it thrive or dive? Exciting.
Stephen E Arnold, February 22, 2010
I was not paid to write this item. Because I reference the fall or Rome, my disclosure goes straight to the Library of Congress, where history survives.
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