Siu Lun

I was working on a proposal today, thinking about web 2.0, social networking, collaboration everything that’s coming out of the internet the past few years. It suddenly dawned upon me that all these efficiencies improvement, particularly on the internet, people connecting with other people.

It all seems very familiar.

My other half watches a lot of David Attenborough, with her born in the year of the tiger. It is ‘inevitable’ that I too had to watch what she watches as I’m a mere ox. What dawned upon me was episodic memories of David talking about ants. How ants work by touching their antennas using chemical signals, and all but the one that produces them, have to collaborate and work.

Putting that into the context of our world. The queen ant, would be our society. Whomever controls our society, controls the subjects below (to a degree), and we, as people who do not control the society, we collaborate, we network, we share. In order to better ourselves, better equip ourselves, forming ‘groups’ to become stronger, sharing information to make us wiser, smarter.

I have had this ugly image in my head as I thought to this point of a hive. A swarm of bees, ants, those weird creatures in those sci-fi movies.

I’m not complaining, for I’m in the benefit of such a system. What I’m afraid of I suppose, is our lost of ‘emotions’, ‘characteristics’ and we may even lose our unpredictability one day, when everyone knows what you are, how you think.

Of course, taking a look at the world now. There is no chance that would happen. Though I guess “Tech” people be warned, I think we’re the most likely bunch to convert first.

With the release of Google OS imminent and the likes of O3D plugins being developed at Google. It is only a matter of time Google will force/encourage the entire PC gaming industry into developing browser based games that has the social side of the web integrated into the core.

Some game developers are already seeing this trend and have jumped into developing mobile games and other browser based games.

One example is Sid Meier whom is developing the legendary civ series onto the social networking platform. Facebook.

It is clear Google’s path to success will continue and by entering into the PC OS and mobile OS market, they’re trying to dominate and overtake the traditional OS giants. If I were you, I would stock up on Google shares.

All of what I’ve said can very well happen in the next year or 2.

As all of the technology concerns is either in development/mature enough to be deployed for production today.

I made a post the other day about Opera on Google Finance.

These few days however, Google Finance refuse to render properly at all.

I wonder wtf Google has done to their codes. I put it on a validator test and it fails miserably.

Is Google deliberately trying to push Opera browser to the edge? Well, they have every reason to…

But what happened to the ‘don’t be evil’ motto?