The Google Knowledge

July 13, 2008

So Google seems to be the only company that is still making digital copies of books so that they are indexable for the internet. Does this not bother anyone other than me? The point of books and knowledge is that once you have a book there is no changing it and if one copy gets destroyed there is about a thousand other copies out there. By putting all the world’s digital knowledge on just Google’s servers we are setting ourselves up for a colossal failure if Google goes out of business (which can happen, they are a private business, not a government business). ALSO, if one company holds all of the world’s knowledge what’s to say they can’t just change something when they feel like it. This is not a good thing for the world, since knowledge is power, we seems to be fine with Google holding all the power. What happens when their famous expression “Don’t be Evil” becomes “Evil is ok if it helps google?” Dark times…

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