Google as God
I’m reading an article right now for my Internet Systems Research class about Google. An interesting read so far, but one thing has jumped out at me- a quote from Sergey Brin (one of the founders of Google:The perfect search engine would be like the mind of God.
This isn’t really surpising to me.
According to the creation story in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, this is what we, as a human race have always been striving for.
Genesis 3:4b-7:
4…”You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
The question remains though, when Google is the mind of God, will we realize that we’re naked?
