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O.K. So I’m making a little bit of a joke in the title but Google’s SVP, Product Management Jonathan Rosenberg recently made four predictions for the web:
- All the world’s information will be accessible from the palm of every person
- Everyone can publish, and everyone will
- When data is abundant, intelligence will win
- The vast majority of computing will occur in the cloud
My favorite line is “In a world that feels like it is lit by lightning, speed wins, and we have a responsibility to our users to not retreat, to not be content to stand still, to not be complacent or near-sighted.”
What does his HUGE post mean to you and me? Here is my interpretation.
Everyone will be involved in social media in some form and all that information (which will be vetted through crowd sourcing) will be accessible and make you super-smarter all the while happily sitting on Google servers.
Well, at least something like that. You can read it for yourself but I think we all understand this (at least somewhat) already but we all must help to educate our friends, family, students, co-workers, and clients on the future of communication so they can benefit as we do everyday.
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Everyone? That seems a little ethnocentric. Insta-data gratification in the palms of our hands may be a looming reality for some of us, but the 3rd world still exists and probably will for the next several generations. It's true that things like cell phones are catching on even in the poorest of nations. But we still have people living as slaves. Technology can't create such a utopia until we tackle some deeper problems of a very human nature.
I agree, and that's why I'm poking fun at Google's "better world through our technology" propaganda. The did get one thing correct and that is that the world will only benefit from better communication.
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