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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12"Will super datacenters built by the likes of Google, Amazon, Yahoo and Microsoft evolve into more intelligent hubs, dispensing advice and ordering our lives?"
Wow. Just, wow.
Futurists just absolutely love spewing unrealistic *****. Sometimes I wonder if they've ever even stepped outside of their university tower-dwelling, or been to an actual place where normal people work for a living. - Bensch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8If we want twenty-first century pyramids, we need to be looking much more long-term: The ideas Stewart Brand put forth with the Long Now Foundation and the Clock and Library projects (Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_the_Long_Now ) are a great start. Those datacenters will last decades, not centuries, and certainly not millennia - it's laughable to compare proprietary technology with words carved into rocks.
- HanSolo69, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5One can only hope this will happen. So much of my day is wasted with trying to decide just what I'm going to do. If Google could just fill up my Google Calendar with what I'm going to do during the day and make me into a mindless it would make things so much easier.
Here's to the future! Cheers! - BlueVoid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Well he phrased in the form of a question so I guess I can't attack him for his ridiculous statement.
- ohsoserial, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I can see the headlines now ..
"Google became self-aware on Nov 21, 2006 and started its extermination of the human race. It's been said that Google Genocide (beta) application is especially gruesome, delivering death customized to the specific browsing habits of each man, woman and child." - jawadde, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4well, good luck to them i they want to order my life... I never succeeded, and on top of that, I surf the web anonymously (no cookies, no forms, no login, false credentials everywhere)
those who want to blend into the crowd should applaud the concept of a global ordering system : the more information they gather, the easier it gets to remain anonymous. A bit like the sherlock holmes statement : the best way to hide blood is by shedding blood - InferiorWang, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"Of course it might take another World War (or two)"
Insert obligatory Einstein quote here. - vertinox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@"Futurists just absolutely love spewing unrealistic *****. Sometimes I wonder if they've ever even stepped outside of their university tower-dwelling, or been to an actual place where normal people work for a living."
To be fair, no one even knew of the Manhatten project or what was really going on with the Apollo project until their results were released. I suppose unless you actually work at Google... Then I don't think the real world has an idea of what is going on either.
Remember kids... It took less 50 years from the first airplane to the first rocket engine. Not to mention Atomic bomb only took 25 from theory til use in the field.
A lot can change and it won't matter what the real world thinks... Its about those research labs.
I doubt they will be super AI question centers, but DARPA and Google will change the world so much it won't even be recognizable in 50 from now.
Of course it might take another World War (or two) - paku, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4God I hope so. Thinking for yourself is so "Pre 9/11"..
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2SkyNet!
- patthew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Didn't the band Rush already predict this like thirty years ago? Although to be fair, their estimate was about 100 years off.
- baaaan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Some of you guys have too much time on your hands. I'm it very fantasy-like to compare frigging DATA CENTERS with pyramids, but get real! .. better yet, get girlfriends -- or boyfriends, if that's your thing.
- carpespasm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i'm sitting in a datacenter right now (night guy at work) and i don't see it becoming anything more than loud. sentient life it is not. i doubt i'd have to reboot sentient life a few times a night.
- ChrisGilliard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ummm, let me get this straight they're comparing the engine of the modern economy (i.e. datacenters) to a big stone tower build to worship the gods as part of a religion. I guess I don't see the connection.
- ScottMitchell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You must have missed this Daily Show segment: http://youtube.com/watch?v=3EKFE2jGmVI
- wurzelgummage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Looks like the web 2.0 ***** generator is the Great Pyramid.
"The guys are building the pyramids, but they don't know what for. Is it for searching? No. An Internet Assistant delivered on a custom basis that tells us how to run our business and lives–how to get an edge is the ultimate best use of the real estate going forward" - WiseWeasel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2No, but they'll be happy to hand over records of all your personal activity to the NSA...
- jexe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Er, are they sure they mean pyramids? Perhaps if Bill Gates gets entombed in one.
- KnightWhoSaysNi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I, for one, welcome our new super datacenter overlords!
- hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1And your basis for this is? Sure some of the components in the datacenter will last only that long, but they will be replaced. Eventually it is likely that none of the original components remain, but there won't be any one point where one could say that the original datacenter is gone and something else took it's place.
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