Google Seeks to Organize All of Human Ignorance
Mountain View, CA. Having organized all of human knowledge, Google has announced plans to organize all of human ignorance. At a recent press conference CEO Eric Schmidt explained: “I asked our engineers to describe to me the largest computational task our company could undertake. Several of them said that organizing human ignorance is a task no other company could undertake. Admittedly, human ignorance is vast -- perhaps unlimited – but our goal is to organize all of it. Consistent with our mobile strategy, we aim to provide anytime, anywhere ignorance.
Last month we did a brief test organizing a small portion of human ignorance. The process so strained our servers that they melted the steel shelves they sit on. We had to take the servers off-line to cool them down.
You might be wondering: 'What would be the advantage of having all of human ignorance organized?' Well, suppose you were seeking to do a particular task and wanted to know all of human ignorance related to that particular task. In a split second Google will deliver to you just that targeted ignorance you're looking for.
Similarly, students young and old can expose themselves to ignorance on a scale never before imagined. People will be able to walk around ignorant. Dazed and ignorant. In any country. At any time.
Here at Google we just want to give people options. Ignorance is an option and we want people to have that option.
I can say with confidence that we know of no other company undertaking this task. When this work is complete, all of human ignorance will be as searchable as all of human knowledge.
And here's the icing on the cake. Are you ready for it? To the right of our “I'm feeling lucky” button on our home page, we'll be adding a new button: “I'm feeling ignorant.” Ignorance at your fingertips. With a click of the mouse.
Thank you all for coming today.”
When not plastering and spackling black holes, the author likes to refurbish older computers to deliver to youth and adults who don't have a computer. In his spare time he revises his plans for an antique ebook store.
He recently blogged about multimedia letters to the editors and Lawrence Lessig's inspiring Change Congress movement.
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Please tell me this is an April's fool...
It has to be. Look at the post time. Like anybody at PCWorld would be up at that hour on any normal day.
Item #1 is the first entry in the database... ;)
I don't know. I just don't know...
The scariest thing about it is that it might make sense