Scary!

Scary!

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I read this at Roughtype. I get scared. This is not at all where I do believe we should go. I remember a Donald Duck cartoon on the same subject. Conclusion there is that it makes us dumb and even though it sounds pretty stupid I agree with that conclusion. It is stupid. I prefer to make my own decisions. Have we really become this lame that we need someone else and even a search engine/technology to make our own daily decisions? Yikes… Personally I have no idea nor understanding why that should be the case. Pathetic and scary…

You will find more on this amazing quote by Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt in this Financial Times article -Â Google’s goal to organize your daily life.

It makes me shiver…

eriks

Erik was an Innovation Coach at the AT&T Foundry. He was also the CTO of Spot.us, a global platform for community-funded local reporting (winner of the Knight News Challenge). Previously, Erik co-founded Allvoices.com, where he served as the VP of Social Media and User Interface. Allvoices.com is a global community that shares news, videos, images and opinions. At the Reuters Digital Vision Program at Stanford University between 2005-2006, he created the website inthefieldONLINE.net, which drew widespread recognition from major global media including PBS, CNN and BBC, and was featured on Discovery International’s Rewind 2006 as one of the 25 highlights of the Year.

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eriks

Erik was an Innovation Coach at the AT&T Foundry. He was also the CTO of Spot.us, a global platform for community-funded local reporting (winner of the Knight News Challenge). Previously, Erik co-founded Allvoices.com, where he served as the VP of Social Media and User Interface. Allvoices.com is a global community that shares news, videos, images and opinions. At the Reuters Digital Vision Program at Stanford University between 2005-2006, he created the website inthefieldONLINE.net, which drew widespread recognition from major global media including PBS, CNN and BBC, and was featured on Discovery International’s Rewind 2006 as one of the 25 highlights of the Year.

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