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In 1958 Isaac Asimov wrote a short story titled "All the Troubles of the World" (included in the collection "Nine Tomorrows"). It described a world transformed by Multivac, a giant all-knowing computer. Asimov died in 1992, a mere four years before Larry and Sergey started their project "to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful." Below are selected quotes from Asimov’s story (no spoilers), next to relevant imagery from Google.
via Neil Fraser: News: Google Multivac.
Looking down the Northwest Arm in Halifax, from the lobby of the Royal Saraguay Yacht Club
Posted via web from mathewingram’s posterous
Experimenting with something called Formspring, which is basically a way of automating a question-and-answer post, and will also (if I understand it correctly) cross-post the responses to a Tumblr blog, Facebook, Twitter, etc. So go ahead, ask me a question and I will do my best to answer.
http://www.formspring.me/m
Mathew Ingram's Notes
Neil Fraser: Google = MultivacDec 29, 2009
Northwest Arm, HalifaxDec 13, 2009
Go ahead: Ask me a questionDec 8, 2009
The Dallas Morning News pulls down the wallDec 6, 2009
Daily Mirror editor says to forget about SEODec 3, 2009
Peabody Hotel, MemphisDec 3, 2009
Video of my TEDx Toronto talkNov 27, 2009
The Globe and FacebookNov 26, 2009
McSweeney’s: Has Bell Invented the “Telegraph Killer?”Nov 23, 2009
Union StationNov 23, 2009