how can I be excited for Google Glass now?
08:26 | 20-03-2013 | Google, Internet, Lifeform | 1 Comment
A couple years ago, I wrote a post called Google, Rome, and Empire. The gist of the article, of which I was very proud at the time, was that Google’s grand plan mirrored the structure of Roman roads in their build-out period, and that Google would unify its dozens of small properties with its five or six big ones by means of a single meta-service.
I envisioned this rich tapestry of services, obscure to monolithic, hooking in through engines and tools to a vastness of data and users, and, at the other end of the telescope, a single point of entry through which one would have instant access to everything from maps to obscure scientific results to the current price of tea. A bit like the real (or rather, idealized) empire, really: An assemblage of hamlets and metropoli, farms and academies, every citizen knowing that their via vicinale led to a via rustica, which led to a via publica, which led to Rome.
как подметил недавно Марко Армент:
‘Open’ has very little to do with anything [Google] does. What they’re really doing most of the time is trying to gain control of the web for themselves and their products.
все так и есть.
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