Google Really Is Taking Over The World!

[LazyHippy]

Children in the developing world, Bender added, will receive accounts with Google's free e-mail service to store journals, videos, photos, composed music and other school projects. Already, educators are tapping into the popular YouTube Internet video service.

U.S. schools may join inexpensive-laptop project | Tech News on ZDNet

While I think it's great that we might actually get to a stage where everyone has access to computers and the internet it's a bit worrying the amount Google will soon know about well, everyone! ... but it could present some great opportunities!

 

[Deliguy]

Great! More phishers.

 

[scottspfd82]

I may get flamed like crazy for this, luckily I don't give a shit. I really believe that google deserves everything they have earned.

They deserve to be the best at what they do because they are the best at what they do.

They consistently make the internet a better place. PPC quality score bs aside, google has done more to improve funcionality of the internet than any other company.

On one hand it sucks that one company gets a monopoly in soo many areas. But on the other hand, it's pretty rare to come across a company that provides so many free services for so many people.

I truly believe that the world is a much better place because of google.

 

[LazyHippy]

Scottspfd82 (can I call ya scott?), I agree with you mate. Google do produce shit-hot products and most of the time give them away free (in exchange for information and advertising opportunities).

I'd much rather see Google rule the world than M$, Time-Warner-AO-Hell or New$ Corp, comparatively speaking Google "don't do evil".

What concerns me is the amount of information they hold on individuals and who they might give it too and also how they are helping some countries to restrict access to only approved sites.

Generally in the west we don't have to worry too much, these days our governments can't get away with killing people who disagree with them - not at home anyway. But presuming Google and the other partners in the ILPC project (and Intel's Classmate one) have to comply with local laws then what will be the implications in say Zimbabwe, Sudan or Burma - Where the information these laptops collect could be invaluable to a regime looking to keep a close eye on it's people?

 

[lv826nv]

But presuming Google and the other partners in the ILPC project (and Intel's Classmate one) have to comply with local laws then what will be the implications in say Zimbabwe, Sudan or Burma - Where the information these laptops collect could be invaluable to a regime looking to keep a close eye on it's people?

Its big brother but for them, but with anything there is good and bad..... but if the actions that the bad causes outweighs the good then its not smart. I would hope they have a over analytical person on the team to make certain small but big details are taken care of.