Friday, February 8, 2013
Is Google a new god?
Information seems to be the epicenter of our society. The internet (especially google) allows anyone to obtain knowledge about every subject. Do you have a medical question? You can look up symptoms to form a base diagnosis, without ever having to go to a doctor, you can find tutorials to knit or carve. The internet has information that provide users to pick up skills and learn to facts extremely fast, before the internet people would have to go to the library or take a class.
I think now we have become “information junkies” expecting immediate gratification in finding exactly what we want to know. We also want a lot of space to hold things like pictures, videos, and music. What’s interesting is that in most religions there is a god or deity this is either all-knowing or knows more than any mortal worshippers. Now it seems that people can easily get a hold of information and that instead of a “god” possessing all knowledge sites like google does. Before sites like google people could just assume they didn’t know everything or all the universe’s secrets but now anyone with internet access is able to find a plethora of things online.
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