Today as I was using Google, its new feature suddenly forced me to sit back and think. Not only does it give you a drop down list of what you may want, it now also finishes the word off you are saying in grey and the huge list of results updates as you type.
This is very useful yes, however we are taking yet another step to finding things quicker. Everything has to be quicker, easier and simpler. It made me think, will there be a time where we just look at the Google homepage and it can guess what we are thinking?? We have to put our hands on the screen and it will give us suggestions of what we are looking for? It's all getting so fast paced that Google is quicker than we are to think. I find myself competing with Google to write my word down before they can finish my word in grey. I hardly ever win....
The future of Google interests me. I think I would definitely like to delve into this more and find how it evolved over the past few years....maybe I'll google it.
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As big as Google is, it seems pretty strange to most people that is has only just recently reached the no.1 position within the last year or so. This is because Yahoo is still king in Asia, and I don't know whether you noticed but Yahoo advertised a lot last year to try and ward them off....it didn't work obviously, but since those adverts i've actually started using it again....for the stuff Google lacks in.
Them having a system able to guess what we're thinking is a pretty creepy step I think as it could tap into a dark subconcious or intrigue, and it'll probably be long time before the government will allow them to implement it.
I reckon that when (because i've no doubt it will happen eventually) we do reach that point though, we wont be using touch screens....rather some kind of integrated hologram system whereby you're calling up a console in thin air.
It sounds silly, but it's not too far fetched....hologram technology is already here.
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