Define: Googlestate

Before this blog gets underway, I want to make a statement about the meaning and purpose of this blog. This is not, a some might think, an attack against Google. This is not an attempt to bring down their stock prices, or put them out of business. There's a recession for that.

No, the purpose of this blog is to show people what our world could become if anyone with access to all information we thought we controlled, took over. I simply chose the name "Googlestate" as shorthand for any such world order. If you are offended by this name, fell free to call this concept a "Yahoostate", a "Facebookstate," or a "Bingstate."

Say you search for Define:Googlestate, you will find next to nothing. So I'll define it for you.

Googlestate: (Noun) Any company, public or private, with access to large amounts of personal information, which, by any means, takes control of the world government.

You may say that, because I am using the name Googlestate, that I mean harm to Google. Not at all. I use Google everyday, for research and email. I use Google as much, if not more, than any other person. I simply chose the name for shorthand because Google is the most widely used and most well know Web search engine. It has the most features and products outside of the web, with more on the way, many of which scare me to think about if they were used against us.

In my next three posts, releasing over the next week, I will explain how a Googlestate could be born. For now, I leave you with a solemn charge.

Be vigilant. Be Aware. And if need be, Stand up and be counted.

Power Corrupts

In his famous (or infamous, depending on who you ask) novel, 1984, George Orwell prophesied a future where a "Big Brother" controlled the world, watching everyone through television, knowing all, and controlling all information that made it's way into public hands. Though nightmarish and horrifyingly convincing, Orwell's novel was pure fiction when it was released.

Is it now?

In 1996, two college students started a research project with the goal to organize that labyrinth of data on the web. They called their site, a small, beta operation at the time, "Google."

Today, Google has expanded it's services to include image, video, as well as web searching, a map service including a service called street view, which allows viewers to see what that street looks like as if they were there, a news service called Google News. Google Inc. now owns You Tube, the worlds biggest video uploading and sharing sites, has it's own phone and companion Operating system, and it's own Browser, Chrome. With a few clicks and searches, all information in the world is available to so called "Googlers." It is even more so for Google Inc., who organize fads in searches in Google Trends, allowing anyone with access to the site to understand the collective conscience of the world, and what we are thinking.

Sound Familiar?

This is Googlestate, a blog that attempts to show the truth about how our lives are seen and organized by Google, and how, if abused, that power could lead to a takeover, the end of liberty and privacy. This event, I call the birth of the Googlestate.

While the world at large sees Google as a simple convenience, it could be used against us. While their informal motto is "Don't be Evil," As we have seen for years, as history repeats itself again and again, Power Corrupts.

Don't be ignorant. Don't laugh it off as paranoia. For all we know, it could be happening right now. And we wouldn't know a thing.