Is Google impeding our knowledge?

An amazing search engine company based out of California, located in the heart of Silicon Valley, has been on the rise of success these days. Could their main Web Searching abilities actually prohibit our function of thinking? Take a look at it from this angle for a moment. When you are discussing your new and innovative ideas to your colleagues at a lunch meeting at Outback Steakhouse, you stumble into a memory block of the name of this process you were talking about last week to your Boss. Well right now you're caught on the spot; however, your first instinct would be to explain, "I'll have to Google it to find that name I was mentioning." Now only if you had purchased internet access on your cellphone, you wouldn't be cornered into a dark alley when your colleagues have no idea what you're talking about after inquisition.

Our ability to actually encode the information we receive and store it in a long term memory has depleted, only because we have Google to fall back on in our desired information needs. Perhaps a better more blunt way of saying it, we're becoming LAZY and Google isn't helping. In no way am I bashing Google of their wonderful products; however, I'm basically ranting of our society becoming more and more lazy as days go on. Once the Baby Boomers era is old and decrepit (if many aren't already), our need for libraries will soon fade away-- why? Because the costs of publishing are expensive, and the demand for non digital media will slightly decrease as more and more digital media will become available, most likely in a form that is very attractive to us rationally frugal consumers, FREE!!

Basically, could Google be taking part in a pseudo brain for our database of knowledge? If we don't have to be challenged to store things in our long term memory of our noggin (mostly on behalf of if we forget something), we'll always have google right next to us. Sounds like a copasetic drug to me. Yikes!

Some food for thought

Google, has practically become the Microsoft of the web; moreover, with their recent purchase, such as YouTube. Internet domination seems to be their ploy, as they already pretty much cover (and do a good job of providing easy and fast access to their products) Mapping, Blogs, Videos, Message Forum (Groups), Email, and much more. The only thing that they don't seem to provide is Web Hosting services, or even their own auctioning site. It's fairly humorous that they choose which companies they want to compete with. Various Bill Gates projects are one of their endeavors-- which brings us to a Google OS.

Anyway, whatever their market strategy is, they are stepping on the toes of all these smaller online businesses trying to differentiate their products.