Ain't technology grand

Follow the timeline:

1. Build internet.
2. Grant access to information, services, and people on and through internet.
3. Make internet access through a device in your home socially acceptable.
4. Make internet access through a device you carry around with you socially acceptable.*
5. Make internet access through a device you wear socially acceptable.
6. Make internet access through a device implanted in you socially acceptable.
7. Enjoy hive-mind.

*You are here.

At great risk of being considered a Luddite, the following are issues my generation and the next few will have to deal with in the next 50-150 years if technology is allowed to continue along it's current path.

Human augmentation, networked consciousness, ubiquity of robotic services and labor, artificial intelligence, designer genetics (human and non-human), space war, global energy/environmental/population readjustments, rampant abuse of advanced systems and technologies of control by governments and individuals.

The power of Google's +1 button

Android and Chrome users +1 awesome stuff (often Google's own products), Google uses these +1's in their search algorithm to rank websites.

Websites that have the +1 button will tend to outperform those that don't in search rankings; those websites without the button will rush to include it so their sites have a chance.

Chrome and Android users have the power to organize the web based on their tastes (which favors Google properties); all the users who don't use Chrome or Android will need to download Chrome and/or get an Android phone in order to have their voice heard in the search rankings.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE .... or at least to the Google people.

For now.