Freedom and Money
the best things in life come cheap. or better, free.
im posting this on a free blog. google has given us the opportunity to freely publish any thoughts. it may be politically incorrect / blasphemous. freedom itself is free. especially after the advent of the WWW.
information wants to be free, said Bruce Sterling in the book the Hacker Crackdown [this was the best seller he distrubuted freely, online]. sterling is considered to be one of the planet's foremost technology wirters. he now writes regularly for Wired if he isn't giving a keynote speech at some geekfest. this free informations exists. information always exists. its just naive to think nobody knows. anything can be found on google. provided you know where to look.
one might think google's the noblest- what with the sole puropse of "organising the world's knowledge". why are they doing it? question upon question upon question can make google the scariest corporation ever.
they've invested in brainpower. not in technology. what started as a college project is now making the likes of Microsoft and Skype and Yahoo shit in their tight, formal pants. they've invented new technology to get around problems. theres 'GFS' a distributed filesystem. there s google maps. theres google sms. theres gmail. theres google pages. theres 'AdSense'. see the little ads by gooooooooogle thingy on the bottom right, below the links? this thing reads whatever is posted here and puts relevant text ads in the box. so if i put a paragraph about a particular model of a laser printer, that box would probably sell one to you. scary.
the terms and conditions from google's services, if read carefully doesn't really tell us about what happens to deleted accounts. basically, if i use gmail all the time, i can be pretty sure that google knows me inside-out. even after i delete my mail account. what gives me comfort is the fact that google is hardly dangerous. they gave me free email. and a free blog service. unlimited space, almost. almost no ads. so why should i care? google knows millions of people inside out. respectable. cool.
the best things really are free. but freedom is, again, relative. free of money doesn't mean free of cost, right? if a global catastophe arises, i'll know i should goto google for help. for they'll really know.
im posting this on a free blog. google has given us the opportunity to freely publish any thoughts. it may be politically incorrect / blasphemous. freedom itself is free. especially after the advent of the WWW.
information wants to be free, said Bruce Sterling in the book the Hacker Crackdown [this was the best seller he distrubuted freely, online]. sterling is considered to be one of the planet's foremost technology wirters. he now writes regularly for Wired if he isn't giving a keynote speech at some geekfest. this free informations exists. information always exists. its just naive to think nobody knows. anything can be found on google. provided you know where to look.
one might think google's the noblest- what with the sole puropse of "organising the world's knowledge". why are they doing it? question upon question upon question can make google the scariest corporation ever.
they've invested in brainpower. not in technology. what started as a college project is now making the likes of Microsoft and Skype and Yahoo shit in their tight, formal pants. they've invented new technology to get around problems. theres 'GFS' a distributed filesystem. there s google maps. theres google sms. theres gmail. theres google pages. theres 'AdSense'. see the little ads by gooooooooogle thingy on the bottom right, below the links? this thing reads whatever is posted here and puts relevant text ads in the box. so if i put a paragraph about a particular model of a laser printer, that box would probably sell one to you. scary.
the terms and conditions from google's services, if read carefully doesn't really tell us about what happens to deleted accounts. basically, if i use gmail all the time, i can be pretty sure that google knows me inside-out. even after i delete my mail account. what gives me comfort is the fact that google is hardly dangerous. they gave me free email. and a free blog service. unlimited space, almost. almost no ads. so why should i care? google knows millions of people inside out. respectable. cool.
the best things really are free. but freedom is, again, relative. free of money doesn't mean free of cost, right? if a global catastophe arises, i'll know i should goto google for help. for they'll really know.
posted by AJ1 at 2:24 PM
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the hacker crackdown can be downloaded for free from the project gutenberg site. google it.
project gutenberg is a collection of free text files [sometimes, entire books]
but thinking in a broad perspective... you and me are around billions.. and its hard to get in toplist and our info are mere dust unless we are V.I.P to outer world :-) so we are safe. am I right.
you are very right. who cares about one user? one site? one page?
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