Seeing Forests

So, I guess I just hadn’t seen this in Denver until now but doing a search in Google Maps for a location in our local shopping Mecca called Cherry Creek, I saw that Google Maps has all kind of little icons for the businesses layered over top of the map.  Great for what I’ve always [...]

Another example of human vs machine - TIVO saying it’s going to change the channel I’m watching to what it’s been programmed to record.  If I’m watching something the default should be to NOT change the channel to what it thinks I should watch.  The default should be what I, the human, is watching.  It [...]

At the core of Google’s principle is to “do no evil”.  I submit the corollary holds - “do no good”.  I submit that Google is fundamentally an automaton.  A machine.  Differentiating from Google is to differentiate between machine and human.  Their greatest strength reveals their greatest weakness.