Netizen Autonomy

Google is off the internet map ... as in gone

My Safari browser has decided that Google is the internet.

As I write this post, Google is in a blackhole of sorts, gone off the face of the internet map. Instead of my browser registering an error from the part of Google's servers, this is what is telling me :

Of course, my internet connection is fine and dandy. Yet the browser does not understand that. It registers Google's absence as a problem with internet connection.

Now if I take a look at my blog submit page, I find this :

The page has all links to Google's servers reporting errors.

This should be sobering to the millions of people who are now switching to Google's servers for all their technology needs.

I honestly don't think it is good business practice to rely on web services like GMail, Google Docs and Spreadsheets, Google Groups, Picassa, Checkout --eventhough I make use of all these services myself. I consider them fallbacks more than primary services because, on the net and with Google, you just never know.

Sure, their servers may be up and running by the time I finish this post. Yet the point is still valid : By it's ubiquitousness, Google is becoming the internet.

That sure makes me wary.

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Words to live by

Let's begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift minimizes --indeed, deletes-- the role of wealth in the economic and social system. And it sheds the adverse connotation going back to Marx. Instead of the owners of capital or their attendants in control, we have the admirably impersonal role of market forces. It would be hard to think of a change in terminology more in the interest of those to whom money accords power. They have now a functional anonymity.

But most of the people who use the new designation --economists, in particular-- are innocent as to the effect. They see nothing wrong with their bland, descriptive terminology. They pay no attention to the important question: Whether money "wealth" accords a special power. (It does.) Thus the term innocent fraud.

— John Kenneth Galbraith: Free Market Fraud | The Progressive