En 2011, Google possède un parc de plus de 900 000 serveurs, soit 2,8 % du marché à lui tout seul, avec des appareils répartis sur 32 sites. En octobre 2010, le leader numérique représente 6,4 % du trafic Internet mondial et affiche une croissance supérieure à celle du web ! En Europe, il occupe une position hégémonique puisque sa part de marché dans la recherche représente plus de 93%.
As I've written here before, science fiction is terrible at predicting the future, but it's great at predicting the present. SF writers imagine all the futures they can, and these futures are processed by a huge, dynamic system consisting of editors, booksellers, and readers. The futures that attain popular and commercial success tell us what fears and aspirations for technology and society are bubbling in our collective imaginations.
RT @trevortimm: Who has creepier facial recognition technology: Facebook, Google, random advertisers on the street, or the FBI?
“At a base minimum, people should be able to walk down a public street without fear that companies they’ve never heard of are tracking their every movement — and identifying them by name — using facial recognition technology,” the privacy advocates wrote in a joint statement. “Unfortunately, we have been unable to obtain agreement even with that basic, specific premise.”
RT @MarinGontier: Très très bon @jerezim sur @franceinter "asservir les êtres humains" t800=tel…
What big business is eyeing up as the next big commercial opportunity: namely, autonomous robot technology that can operate in a human environment. Or to put it another way: Terminator. Although we’re repeatedly told that the robots are not Terminator; that they’re not going to kill us; or make us their slaves; that there is nothing to fear.
The United States and other developed countries are in the midst of a digital revolution that may be even more profound than the industrial revolutions of the past. Advances in robotics, cognitive computing and other digital technologies promise untold benefits in a world of leisure hard to imagine. But there is also a dark side to this technological change. It could lead to joblessness for most and extreme inequality, threatening economic health and political stability. Tension over rising inequality and a lack of good-paying middle class jobs is growing in Silicon Valley and nearby San Francisco, the epicentre of computerisation and the information economy. In San Francisco, buses for Google, Facebook and other companies ferry high-paid tech workers to their jobs in Silicon Valley. This allows tens of thousands to live in the city, fuelling popular anger over gentrification and high housing prices that are pushing longtime residents out.
[THSF2015] Droits et libertés sur Internet - @jerezim
Google will build a fleet of robots capable of destroying mankind