Perks of Internet
Voila!! I made pav bhaji. Okay, so you are obviously wondering whats the internet got to do with that. I picked the recipe off the internet. Wow!!
Google has become such an integral part of "we" "tech-savvy" people. I cannot remember a single day when I don't go to google.com (apart from the days I don't touch the computer at all). Today I had to book an appointment with a doctor. I had lost the hospitals number. What did I do? No prizes for guessing that - I googled the hospital's contact details.
A new phone brand/model is out and whose opinion do you trust more - the colleague in the cubicle next to you or do you do your research on google too? Someone tells me a great book to read- I ask google. Someone recommends a movie- where do I go- imdb.com or google.
Amazing! The amount of information google has on me already. Which phone models I like, books I read, movies I watch, restaurants I eat, hospitals I prefer.
A photograph of Rahul Gandhi was published in a daily last week. A photo of Rahul reading a book on a trip on a private jet. A leading daily got curious seeing that. The article talked about how it would be good to know what our leaders are reading and how an author, who thinks her books are not read by anyone influential, can influence minds. To find out what Mr. Gandhi was reading, the daily got a high resolution image, enlarged it and found two phrases from that photograh. Then they went to our very own know-it-all-friend Google. Searched the two terms and narrowed down to a single book. Bingo! We now know what Rahul was reading. A history of Israel. Google! Impressive?!!? Spooky??!!?
Google has become such an integral part of "we" "tech-savvy" people. I cannot remember a single day when I don't go to google.com (apart from the days I don't touch the computer at all). Today I had to book an appointment with a doctor. I had lost the hospitals number. What did I do? No prizes for guessing that - I googled the hospital's contact details.
A new phone brand/model is out and whose opinion do you trust more - the colleague in the cubicle next to you or do you do your research on google too? Someone tells me a great book to read- I ask google. Someone recommends a movie- where do I go- imdb.com or google.
Amazing! The amount of information google has on me already. Which phone models I like, books I read, movies I watch, restaurants I eat, hospitals I prefer.
A photograph of Rahul Gandhi was published in a daily last week. A photo of Rahul reading a book on a trip on a private jet. A leading daily got curious seeing that. The article talked about how it would be good to know what our leaders are reading and how an author, who thinks her books are not read by anyone influential, can influence minds. To find out what Mr. Gandhi was reading, the daily got a high resolution image, enlarged it and found two phrases from that photograh. Then they went to our very own know-it-all-friend Google. Searched the two terms and narrowed down to a single book. Bingo! We now know what Rahul was reading. A history of Israel. Google! Impressive?!!? Spooky??!!?
Last year a thief broke into our house and rummaged through clothes and stuff probably to find cash. Nothing was stolen, thankfully, other than a few thousand ruppees. But, the episode left me feeling very insecure and uneasy in my own home. Google has so much info on all of us. Should that be reason to worry too?
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