Time Warner’s Business 2·0 published four scenarios for Google’s future: Google is the media, Google is the internet, Google is dead and, in 2105, Google is God. The last one brings up interesting thoughts: the recording of all human consciousness, stored in servers. It’s the realm of science fiction now, but it’s not the first time someone has mentioned this.
   The roots are in the 21st century, not the 22nd: so many of us are blogging, so our thoughts will be around for our successors, or so some of us might hope. Our personal brands may well outlast our persons. Our thought processes, which were once private or scrawled in draft form in notebooks, like a painter’s sketches, at best, are now public.
   The future is usually a mixture of all projections plus one that no one ever foresaw. I’m interested in that fifth one. Posted by Jack Yan, 23:31  permalink

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