I still remember the day the news announced that AOL had bought Time Warner. I literally did a spit take. But, but, no one uses AOL anymore, I remember thinking.
Now teh Googles is getting into driverless cars and glasses that keep you connected to google 24/7. It all smacks of the same desperation. It’s the rush for the next big thing.
Smart shoes! (call ‘em iShoes)
Network pots and pans. They send you a text when they need to be washed.
TV’s that use Kinetic motion detector to tell when you are shuffling in your seat so it puts the game/movie on pause so you can use the bathroom.
I wonder when teh googles will realize that its iShoes are untied and it’s gonna trip any day now?
I say this, but then again, I am still using teh googles.
I love Google.
But I fear her too…
Kennon said it best: “All your bases belong to teh googles.”
Teh Google is pretty massive. You know its bad when you see an internet company making teevees and it doesn’t even occur to you that a couple years ago all they did was internet searches. Now they do everything…and are everywhere….I’m paranoid now. Thanks Jon.
What’s so frightening is that they are really only looking for things that will bring them in dump trucks full of money. They’ve found ways to do cheap Voice Over IP telephone services for all its subscribers but… well… there’s no real money in it. So they patent it and dump it in the closet.
Teh Googles went from searching for things on the Internet to searching for teh moneys.
Just wait until after the Amazon-Google merger…
I know, right? It’s going to be something like that. Something huge. One day, I’ll log onto the Inter-Webs and it will say “Google to buy Amazon” or “Google to buy Best Buy” or something. It will probably be “Google to buy The Moon” and then they’ll charge for advertising so when ever people look up. People will see ads based on their browsing history. *shudder*
“Hanson” did that! (the moon thing)
Really? Oh man… that’s scary.
I’d just like to point out that this morning I read an article on Complex about Apple patenting a shoe that tells you when it is time for new shoes.
I-Shoes indeed.
http://www.complex.com/tech/2013/01/apple-patents-shoes-that-will-tell-when-its-time-for-a-change
Wow. That’s kinda creepy. Just as long as they don’t have a built in scale which sync’s up with the iPhone which in turn will post my weight to my Facebook account. *sigh* That’s probably right around the corner too.
And since Google bought YouTube, I guess it makes sense that while looking for a commercial by searching for “dog backseat commercial” the second non-sponsored result is no real surprise.
I was looking for the fifth one in the list, so my keywords were good but Rule 34 still applied.
I swear to gee-oh-double-dee, I bet if you put on Safe Search on teh Googles to weed out all of the Rule 34 hits, you’d come back with only four or five hits on any search terms.
You know, after teh Googles bought YouTube, I really thought I would stop having to go to Google Video to find the stuff I couldn’t find on YouTube. [/yeah not so much]
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