imagining the big G

When the inventor of concepts like "cyberspace" and the originator of cyber-punk and steam-punk talks about the most influential Artificial Intelligence the world has ever seen;

I listen.

Google’s Earth

We’ve seen nothing like it before, and we already perceive much of our world through it.

We’re citizens, but without rights. 

One thing I do take issue with though, is the idea that people should be divorced from their wild youth.

Nor do I take much comfort in the thought that Google itself would have to be trusted never to link one’s sober adulthood to one’s wild youth,

I think that future generations (or my generation) will just be more accepting of 'wild' behaviour, given that the majority of it will be discoverable by anyone.

One can hope anyway.