Google Takes over the World

So I was looking through the about Google pages that nobody realizes was at the bottom of the Google homepage. And under one of the hyperlinks was a passage labeled "What we do for you." Basically, it just explains how Google's main goal is to provide a perfect search engine, and that it has now expanded to offer actual products to try to make the user's life easier. But the last sentence of this explanation really hit me



"With all our technologies—from search to Chrome to Gmail—our goal is to make it as easy as possible for you to find the information you need and get the things you need to do done."




So maybe you read that, and didn't really think there was anything wrong with that. And technically, in our current world, that is a completely normal sentence. But what really hit me was how technological dependent our world has become. Google has so many different technologies, including Chrome and Gmail. I remember in grade school, having to do science or social studies projects, and having to rely on the encylcopedias that were right next to our chicken soup for the soul books. We didn't even have a computer in the house to consider using the Internet.

Not only are the days of encyclopedias gone, but so are the days of calling family members asking how to do something at home, whether its calling mom on how to do laundry or calling grandma for that amazing recipe. Today everybodys solutions to these problems is to google it.

Google's way of working and knowing what people want is because it collects all of this data from the entire world. People dont have any idea that they are currently test subjects in some sort of huge Google experiment. Even worse, people have no idea how much Google currently knows about them. Personally, I think it would be very scary to consider if something would happen where Google would trade hands/be bought out by somebody else. Having so much information puts you in complete control, and if that control gets in the wrong hands, how many people would be in big trouble because of their reliance on the internet?

Following some of the great pictures regarding Google taking over the world, one of the sites provided 5 weapons that Google has that will eventually lead to it taking over the world. Whether its possible or not, the argument is relatively compelling. Check it out if ya got some time Google Taking Over the World