Leosghost - 9:12 pm on Jun 28, 2012 (gmt 0)

Google has such massive numbers that all human actions become totally predictable and consistent,

Psychohistory..Foundation and Empire..Asimov..I've been saying here and elsewhere for years, that it is obvious that Page or Brin or both have read the series..and are trying in their own ways to put the imagined ( but IMO self evidentially sound ) theories into practice..Making shedloads of money is almost a sideline as against the heady drug of "influence" over such huge numbers of people and society in general at the moment and well into the future..

Watching the manifestations of the various currents of thinking at Google influenced by this and other philosophies, and their real world effects, directed sometimes, ( and at others given an impetus in a direction and then left to their own devices to make their own structures ) by the "tool" of Google, is the most fascinating thing about Google..