Comments on: Google and the Path To Enlightenment http://www.openculture.com/2009/01/google_and_the_path_to_enlightenment_.html The best free cultural & educational media on the web Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:24:58 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: James http://www.openculture.com/2009/01/google_and_the_path_to_enlightenment_.html/comment-page-1#comment-3377 James Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:33:51 +0000 http://www.oculture.com/?p=2310#comment-3377 You make a good point about Google's public and private interests. The promise of ubiquitous access, cloud computing and 'do no harm' is great and holds wonderful possibilities for democratizing information and even education. However, all the data Google has is fodder for algorithm-based ad sales. If you couple GBooks, GScholar, GMail with the concept of GDrive, it's a powerful combo. Do we give up too much of ourselves to get it free? I did a post on the very same thing just yesterday if you're at all interested .... http://james.wanless.info/2009/01/the-folly-of-free/ You make a good point about Google’s public and private interests. The promise of ubiquitous access, cloud computing and ‘do no harm’ is great and holds wonderful possibilities for democratizing information and even education.

However, all the data Google has is fodder for algorithm-based ad sales. If you couple GBooks, GScholar, GMail with the concept of GDrive, it’s a powerful combo.

Do we give up too much of ourselves to get it free?

I did a post on the very same thing just yesterday if you’re at all interested …. http://james.wanless.info/2009/01/the-folly-of-free/

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