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Google Wants to Own The Future - Twitchin Kitten - 01-14-2014
Shooting for the Moon, Google Hopes to Own the Future <-- click for full story
This is the excerpt that bugs me most. I saw this article on the early morning news today and went and looked it up. I don't need someone monitoring my every move. I find my distaste for Google becomes more legitimate every time I read something like this.
On Monday, Google announced that it is purchasing Nest Labs, which makes Internet-connected home devices like a thermostat and smoke alarm, for $3.2 billion in cash.
What will Google use those little nests for? Likely, it will be connected to what Tony Fadell, the chief executive of Nest, told The New York Times last year, is creating a world of objects with awareness.
“Every time I turn on the TV, that’s information that someone is home. When the refrigerator door opens, that’s another sensor, more information,” Mr. Fadell said. His thermostat can track and collect that information. But the future will look different, when we have “sensor networks that can evolve, all interacting with these learning patterns.”