I want to believe that as Google
expands to a size befitting its collective genius, that it will fill
this extra mass with more of the brilliant and profoundly helpful
technology that paved its ascent. I’m trusting that it
won’t fill that space with bureaucracy and fall into a
defensive crouch like a weary old man protecting the stash won back
when there was nothing to lose. But even more, I’m trusting
that Google won’t grow reckless.
In
the long term, the only thing acting in favour of keeping our private
information private is Google’s business model, which relies
on user confi dence that their lives are not being tracked by a Big
Brother-type entity (especially with links to government) –
not the good will of Larry, Sergey, Eric and their successors.
As a wise man once said, “The road to hell is paved with good intensions.”
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Paul Ryan is an editor and senior writer at Australian Anthill.
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