Technology leaps ahead thanks to computer usage and internet access - though some innovators fear the strongest threat yet to all-access open internet is here today, thanks to governements, businesses and even Facebook and Apple.
At least, that's the opinion of Google's co-founder Sergey Brin in this interview, part of a series of reports by the Guardian on the internet, as both support and opposition worldwide grows for the current round of new internet restricion legislation, CISPA, a new 'cyber-security act'.
"He said he was most concerned by the efforts of countries such as
China, Saudi Arabia and Iran to censor and restrict use of the internet,
but warned that the rise of Facebook and Apple, which have their own
proprietary platforms and control access to their users, risked stifling
innovation and balkanising the web.
"There's a lot to be lost,"
he said. "For example, all the information in apps – that data is not
crawlable by web crawlers. You can't search it."
Brin said he and co-founder Larry Page would not have
been able to create Google if the internet was dominated by Facebook.
"You have to play by their rules, which are really restrictive," he
said. "The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason
that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open.
Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation."
Both Google and Oakley are working hard on new tech/internet delivery systems in the form of glasses which would project images and info right into your eyes, combining smartphone and, I suppose EyePhones. Actually it's called Google Glass, and here's a video of how it might be used ... funny, you'll notice in the video that a meeting at a 'bookstore" is featured. Is that supposed to be ironic?
"Ultimately, everything happens through your eyes, and the closer we can
bring it to your eyes, the quicker the consumer is going to adopt the
platform."
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