Comments on: Do you exist? Everything is Miscellaneous and the power of google

By: yvette

yvette — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 05:38:56 +0000

The Database of Intention. My intention eventually becomes your intention. We are what we are looking for. Yes Google has power….50% of the search database I believe. Beware of becoming a “Googlewhack”..barely existing. LOL.

By: Graeme

Graeme — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:43:15 +0000

Everytime I google myself I discover many different personas of me. Sometime’s it’s the real me who has left traces of himself for others to find; sometimes it’s someone blessed with my name only. It’s a matrix out there, and we are all anonymous and one massive entity at the same time.

Who I am online exists for one singular moment in time — in relation to whatever I am expressing then — and ten years from now, the “me” who may have gushed with effulgence about [insert passion here] may no longer exist. But I am still traceable.

I have, in effect, many cross-referenced lives, and hopefully more to come; all of which will be spent in libraries and/or surrounded by books, such is the nature of my work. I am he and he is me and we are all together, goo goo gee chu.

By: tracey

tracey — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:03:15 +0000

I don’t categorically do structure well but made it through part of it and will definitely catch the rest. I am not much of a line dancer either but put me in a room of chaos I will let loose. Maybe that is why the world is half asleep(too much boxes of ’stuff’), or is it organized chaos that is really the problem? hmmm.
Let me tell you a story. When I was up at Alberta Children’s Hospital on Tuesday, I was playing with my girls out at the playground before our appointment. This little girl comes up to me and starts chatting away about supercat etc (coping mechanism stuff). I assumed she was with one of the other parents. As it turns out, she had busted out of the hospital and there I happened to be. She did get a lecture when she was discovered. But my point is, and I find this alot is When I am meant to be found I am, when I am meant to find I do, when it doesn’t happen it wasn’t meant to be. All I can do is hope for the best and trust my instincts alot. That’s it in a nutshell.

Congratulations by the way.

By: telo

telo — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:17:55 +0000

i “exits”…..
i’m trying to get out of this spiderweb…
it would look cool for the younger generation to be found anywhere
but i think it may have some disadvantages too….
so my final decision — it’s not a good thing…(having second thoughts)

maybe i’ll take it back

By: Kat

Kat — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:49:15 +0000

I googled my real name and ‘ta da’ nothing. So, I guess that I don’t exist in the digital world.

By: Lalou

Lalou — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:42:07 +0000

I was thinking about “googling” the name of who we are looking for or a thing, whatever…How it’s possible to be sure that we’ve found good informations ! Tell me David, is that really you behind that blog? How can I be sure of ? Do you read each lines wrote in? Yes, I googled your name! Yes, I got and answer but, is it right…don’t know!
The only thing that I’m sure about, I can find you if I search on Net(easily) but you probably can’t find me! It’s not a challenge!!!!(laugh!)
What do you think about that mister?

By: Faith Aldaba

Faith Aldaba — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:39:44 +0000

i just finished googling myself and yeah my name appeared because of my comments here in your blog. hahaha. guess i exist huh? although…

i strongly refuse to accept the idea of the one being “searchable” in the internet is evidence enough that one actually exist. i do accept the fact however that the internet has the capability to provide information about someone and what this particular person does in his life.

the internet is great, but it should be a parameter or evidence of one’s true existence.

By: Aaron Posehn

Aaron Posehn — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:18:59 +0000

Very interesting talk by David Weinberger!!

By: Lalou

Lalou — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:53:42 +0000

Google myself…strange idea. I did! You know what? I’m everywhere and I’m nothing,as most of us. With Google you’r someone when you are known or almost… Google yourself. It’s a little thrill that makes me nervous I admit!

By: yvette

yvette — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:45:22 +0000

I love going to librairies. I love the feel of a book in my hands. Soon the world will change and we will be reading what used to be books via computer. Hopefully there will be room enough in the world for both the tangible and the intangible (Much like it is now). How much further can we go before we go too far?. I wonder what it will be like for children in the future never to have held a book. I know there are plenty of examples of things our grandparents had that we don’t use today ,like phonographs, but we still have something tangible to replace it, like the cd player or ipod.

If everything is replaceable then maybe our identities are too. If Google says we are one thing and we are not, then who polices that information?

Aren’t books being constantly updated with the knowledge of new information? Pluto is no longer a planet, so into the bin go all the science books. What do we do about incorrect information on the web? The only good thing about the web is that information can be shared much more quickly. But is it accurate?

Will the Earth one day be gone and the human species or higher life form need to prepare itself for life in an intangible world? Existing in a non-existant world? Will we all be “Clone Troopers” void of any emotion? Will Google become the Obi Wan of the future? “These aren’t the droids you are looking for.” I do believe it rains constantly on Kamino…interesting, but not for me!