Tag: Google

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Words Seldom Seen: Panopticon

Panopticon

Noun: Originally used to describe a building designed by Jeremy Bentham in which one observer could see all of the occupants. Usage and interest in panopticon has surged in the digital age as the Google god gains the ability to track your every move.

Example: When a structure, whether physical or electronic, is designed for surveillance it can be called a panoptican.

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Google God?

Is Google a god?

Is Amazon an invasive species?

Is Facebook an ear worm?

This is a repeat and an expansion of the same idea from a post I made last month. It would explain why governments are having a hard time taxing or controlling Google. Apple and Android may be the churches and the clergy but Google rules all and knows all.

Amazon is an invasive species because it’s twenty five years of incredible growth worldwide has completely disrupted the retail ecosystem. Like the Lion Fish on the reefs in the Caribbean or the Salt Cedar in the riparian habitats of the American Southwest.

An ear worm is a song that gets stuck in your head. Facebook shares that property. Once you start looking, liking and/or posting you can’t stop easily.

Pondering from the porch in Bend looking down at the Deschutes River.

Photo is of cairns stacked on a small beach near Yachats, Oregon. They were knocked down by the next high tide.

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STTG

Seek Truth Through Google.

Google has many of the attributes of an ancient God:

  • Omniscience
  • Retribution
  • Demanding
  • Omnipresent
  • Security (with caveats)
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GTS

GTS

A Modern Acronym:

Google That Shit

And the reason your children don’t have to memorize Shakespeare’s Sonnets

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ITSM?

This ad appeared in on my Postcrossing homepage. It assumes that I know what ITSM is and that I have issues with it. Google Ads apparently doesn’t know as much about me as it thinks. It is both creepy and reassuring.