"History is a wonderful thing, if only it was true"
-Tolstoy

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Google-plex

Scroogled in the Wall Street Journal - Boing Boing:

"The Wall Street Journal just published a short interview with me about my story Scroogled, which appears in Radar this month. It's a commissioned piece where the brief was, 'Write a story about the day Google turned evil,' and it's the first Creative Commons-licensed story to appear in Radar Magazine."

On Google and Government

"There are lots of ways in which Google knowing more about you makes Google better for you. But without much regard to what's happening in the world around us, in an era in which the national security apparatus has turned into a kind of lumbering, savage, giant toddler, it behooves us to not leave things within arm's reach that it might stick in its mouth. And that includes things like my search history."

Source here: A New Short Story Imagines Google as a Bad Big Brother - WSJ.com

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