[Klug-general] Any help....

[Mike Evans]

On 27/08/10 11:52, Colin McCarthy wrote:

> Can't we just mark the radioactive waste dumps on Google Maps? I am sure
> future generations and visiting aliens will have 'The Google'. :)
> http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-08-18/

I doubt it.  My prediction is that within a decade Google will gather so 
much personal data on s much of the global population that 1984 and the 
Stasi archives will look pathetic.  The temptation to use this 
information to control/influence people will become too great either for 
the company or government.  People will rise up against the consequent 
persecution/repression and there will be bloodshed.  The name Google 
will be associated with evil, harm, damage, repression etc etc and 
no-one will remember that it once provided some useful services.  People 
will never again share their information/lives etc in such a publicly 
accessible way.  Meanwhile the documented lives of the Pharaohs (who 
were probably just as despotic) will live on in their alabaster jars.

Visiting aliens will pass by, turning up whatever passes for their 
noses, saying "interesting life-form, but sadly pre-programmed for self 
destruction.  Let's come back a bit later when the planet is 
uninhabited.  Shouldn't take long."  Oh - and they will probably /like/ 
radioactive waste and wonder why on earth we spent so much time trying 
to hide it.