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Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :
 
Whoa. The things you find when you peek into Google Labs (*thwaps anyone who so much as thinks of a dog related pun*). It's like having autocomplete from everybody's computers.

You might have to turn off zonealarm to use it correctly though (I did).

--j_k

[ January 31, 2005, 06:45 PM: Message edited by: James Tiberius Kirk ]
 
Posted by skrika03 (Member # 5930) on :
 
Wow, it actually had multiple suggestions for craptaculra [sic]
 
Posted by Jay (Member # 5786) on :
 
Nice.
Wonder what will be next?
 
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
 
Google buys Amazon and takes their impossible to replicate, incredibly complex and helpful customer rating system.

Hobbes [Smile]
 
Posted by skrika03 (Member # 5930) on :
 
I was watching a telecourse about the evolution of radio the other day, how it went from being prime time entertainment to a multitasking soundtrack.

I wonder what will happen to print. Personally, my tree-hugging instincts don't sympathize with the need to perpetuate newspapers.
 
Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :
 
I think that the only reason that we still have newspapers today is that they are rather permenant. Throughout the twentieth century, the newspaper became the tangible summary of a day's events. You can frame and hang a newspaper on the wall from the day that the Red Sox won the world series, when Armstrong first stepped on the moon, or even the day that World War II ended. Printing it up on the web just doesn't have the same effect.

Which leads to another interesting point. 20 years from now, it will be funny to see if these forums are still here and people can look back on them and see what people in the first few years of the twentieth century thought about isses...

--j_k
 


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