Googling the Future
Monday, April 18, 2011
Randall Munroe draws a picture of our future using Google searches for the next 90 years. I doubt I’ll live to see Gillette’s 14-bladed razor.
by Kevin Makice
A Ph.D student in informatics at Indiana University, Kevin is rich in spirit. He wrestles and reads with his kids, does a hilarious Christian Slater imitation and lights up his wife's days. He thinks deeply about many things, including but not limited to basketball, politics, microblogging, parenting, online communities, complex systems and design theory. He didn't, however, think up this profile.
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The collective intelligence is a wonderful thing. Little independent decisions by millions of people contribute to painting a picture we couldn’t possibly see otherwise. Assuming that Randall Munroe actually did the searches he described in his xkcd panel for today, we can thank the sum of a lot of linking and searching for the following prediction of our future:
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