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Fosdick  Suspended Member (Idle past 5527 days) Posts: 1793 From: Upper Slobovia Joined: |
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Fosdick  Suspended Member (Idle past 5527 days) Posts: 1793 From: Upper Slobovia Joined: |
How bad is your googling habit? Mine's up to about 50 googles a day, on average. Google is something like the Wizard of Oz: Oh, Great Google, what is the current human population of the world? Or, oh, great Google, what do you know about figerglass blisters? Or, oh, great Google, what did Bob Dylan mean by "blowin' in the wind"? Or, Oh, great Google, has anyone ever wondered if tsetse-fly genes jump into their victims? Great Google will always come through with answers, no matter how far-fetched or stupid my question might be. And even if I can't spell, Google will help me out. Google is patient and kind. Google is Lord.
If I cared to take the trouble I might be able to make an argument, using Google, of course, that Google is something of quantum-mechanical monster. Google could even be the new threat to our free will and self-determination. Too early to tell. But I can tell you one thing: If Google had been around when I was in school or during my profession career, life would have been very different for me and everyone else. It's hard for us to see it, but the powers of information-gathering in human affairs are growing very fast. Maybe we are becomming Homo sapiens googleease. So my coffee-house questions are these: Could you live without Google (or any of its peers)? Is googling good or bad for humanity? Is it going to change us. Is Google a potentially mind-controlling monster? Or is just a better librarian? ”HM
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AdminWounded Inactive Member |
Do you even need to submit coffee House topics as PNT's? Either way this looks good to me.
TTFN, AW
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Archer Opteryx Member (Idle past 3624 days) Posts: 1811 From: East Asia Joined: |
What's so bad about it? I wish more people had a Googling habit.
How many times do we see discussions hit potholes because a participant can't be bothered to open a window and look up something?
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Modulous Member Posts: 7801 From: Manchester, UK Joined: |
There is a place for you at the Church of Google. Take a pew and submit to the Lord's indomitable Will.
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Fosdick  Suspended Member (Idle past 5527 days) Posts: 1793 From: Upper Slobovia Joined: |
There is a place for you at the Church of Google. Take a pew and submit to the Lord's indomitable Will. Amen, brother.
quote:I can see now more easiliy that this notion of Google Is Lord is not new. Still, the quantum-mechanical aspects of it are interesting. I think I see versions of actions-at-a-distance, or entanglements, very large number of participants, and collapsing wave functions. Could be the closest thing we have to a quantized human consciousness. ”HM
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Fosdick  Suspended Member (Idle past 5527 days) Posts: 1793 From: Upper Slobovia Joined: |
AO writes:
So you think Google is just a better librarian? What's so bad about it? I wish more people had a Googling habit.How many times do we see discussions hit potholes because a participant can't be bothered to open a window and look up something? ”HM
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crashfrog Member (Idle past 1494 days) Posts: 19762 From: Silver Spring, MD Joined: |
Google could even be the new threat to our free will and self-determination. You're right, of course, which is why all human civilization came to an end when they invented encyclopedias and people could just look stuff up in them. Oh, wait. That's not what happened at all?
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bluescat48 Member (Idle past 4216 days) Posts: 2347 From: United States Joined: |
Only use it when I need info.
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kuresu Member (Idle past 2540 days) Posts: 2544 From: boulder, colorado Joined: |
google?
who uses google!? wiki or yahoo for me.
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Fosdick  Suspended Member (Idle past 5527 days) Posts: 1793 From: Upper Slobovia Joined: |
You're right, of course, which is why all human civilization came to an end when they invented encyclopedias and people could just look stuff up in them.
I've googled a lot of stuff you can't find in any encyclopedia. Besides, didn't Diderot fuel a revolution when he wrote the Encyclopedia? Your trouble here is that you're too young to see the fuller sweep of history. You need to consult with older people more often. Oh, wait. That's not what happened at all? ”HM
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Fosdick  Suspended Member (Idle past 5527 days) Posts: 1793 From: Upper Slobovia Joined: |
Only use it when I need info.
bluescat48, have you every asked yourself "Am I googleable?" The world is now divided into two subspecies of virtual humans, those who are googleable and those who are not. ”HM Edited by Hoot Mon, : Subtitle added
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crashfrog Member (Idle past 1494 days) Posts: 19762 From: Silver Spring, MD Joined: |
Besides, didn't Diderot fuel a revolution when he wrote the Encyclopedia? I don't recall it being a revolution that threated human free will, as you suggest.
You need to consult with older people more often. I try but they're always yelling at me to turn off my devil music and get off their lawn.
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kuresu Member (Idle past 2540 days) Posts: 2544 From: boulder, colorado Joined: |
Your trouble here is that you're too young to see the fuller sweep of history. Same applies to you, gramps.Unless, that is, you are as old as human civilization. Keep in mind that not even historians can see the fuller sweep of history, we can only see parts in that which we specialize.
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