I had to tell some smart people about this as soon as I could. Last night I was using stumbleupon, and I came across this video. Let me say right now before anything else, I think this video literally almost pushed me over the brink into insanity. I started thinking about how the world is just going to end up being controlled by one company, then I started thinking of other things like, what happens to a society when literally every possible idea has been taken advantage of, and there is no more room for anyone else to succeed. Then I started to think about how soon there will be a worldwide poverty type of thing where the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer, only there will be no middle class, and the rich would be able to be counted by the thousands. I have never thought of life in this pessimistic manner before.

Then the insane thoughts started. I started to think what if life for humans only started in like the mid 1800s. Because I started wondering howcome we as humans have done not much before then, and after its just one invention after another, until we have the internet and all this. I thought what if we were put here by aliens, or what of God really did create us, just not until like a certain date recently, and all the information about history has simply been written and implanted into our heads by either God or aliens.

THEN, as I was teatering on the brink of insanity, I started to see how google was going to take over, and I in all seriousness started thinking that someone might need to destroy Google. Like just go to all the campuses and kill everyone working there and just blow everything up.

Then I fell asleep and woke up and laughed at everything I thought about, and realized how close I was to becoming the local crazy guy that runs around yelling at little kids about how the end of the world is coming, and about how Google was created by aliens. But I still thought I should tell this to some people who are smart and know way more about psycology than me, because usually when I think of something weird, I can explain to myself psycologically why I thought of it, but this is way beyond any kind of thoughts I've ever had. Please watch the video and tell me if it has the same depressing feel for you.

First off let me just that was an interesting video to say the least. Sometimes in fact I wonder what it would be like to have one company for every need the idea in that video is like one huge news casting like wiki. Wow, a thought just hit me how would we be able to tell the facts from fiction? I give a lot of credit to the guys who thought of this and some of that stuff might even happen, Google will probably become more powerful but combine with amazon? I don't think that will happen. Good video, makes you think a lot and I don't think Google being powerful in the future would be a bad thing, unless it takes the path of in that video but the probability of that is pretty unlikely.

It didn't have a depressing effect on me; it more amused me than depressed me. It's an interesting idea, true, but it will never happen. Although companies like Google and Amazon do become more popular each day, there will never come a time when a single company knocks out all others. Especially if they're saying that a single ONLINE company will knock out PRINT companies, or make them used only by rich and old people.

This is a paranoid video, and perhaps that's why you had the thoughts you did; you succumbed to the paranoia. However, you should relax, as it will never happen like that unless we all enter a sci-fi movie.

There will always be competition in every industry; without it, the entire structure of our capitalist economy would collapse in that industry, and the one "winning" company would go bankrupt.

-IMP ;) :)

The world is already controlled by one company. It's called God. Get with the program. And Jesus is his marketing rep. Mary Magdalene is intern. Judas is Dwight.

I'm the janitor.

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