Comments on: Google – trying to predict the future by inventing it http://futurismic.com/2008/09/18/google-trying-to-predict-the-future-by-inventing-it/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:37:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Tom James http://futurismic.com/2008/09/18/google-trying-to-predict-the-future-by-inventing-it/comment-page-1/#comment-16325 Tom James Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:36:50 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=3966#comment-16325 Goerge Dyson has written a good, and technically interesting, <a href="http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dysong08/dysong08_index.html" rel="nofollow">short SF story on a similar subject</a>: Quote from Edge.org: "Google doesn't merely link or point to data. It moves data around. Data that are associated frequently by search requests are locally replicated—establishing physical proximity, in the real universe, that is manifested computationally as proximity in time. Google was more than a map. Google was becoming something else. ... " Goerge Dyson has written a good, and technically interesting, short SF story on a similar subject:

Quote from Edge.org:

“Google doesn’t merely link or point to data. It moves data around. Data that are associated frequently by search requests are locally replicated—establishing physical proximity, in the real universe, that is manifested computationally as proximity in time. Google was more than a map. Google was becoming something else. … “

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