The google robot

Imagine a consumer technology device that can understand your spoken words (http://labs.google.com/gvs.html), knows what you've looked for in the past (http://google.com/searchhistory) and can use that information to predict what you want in the future (http://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=26651), this device knows what you say to other people (talk.google.com), what you write to other people (mail.google.com), knows what you're studying (scholar.google.com), what you're looking at (images.google.com), what your political biases are (news.google.com), knows what you buy and sell (base.google.com, froogle.google.com), what you find entertaining (video.google.com) and knows your circle of friends (contacts gmail, buddy list in gtalk). Further, imagine that this consumer technology device was connected to a faraway server that could make complicated calculations producing a profile of who you are, predicting such things as your income, what products you would buy, what marketing techniques would be most effective in selling you goods or services (backed up with a feedback mechanism based on what ads you clicked and didn't click) and can even make educated guesses about the intent of your words (labs.google.com/sets) and the words you impart on it in the future (http://labs.google.com/suggestfaq.html#q1, http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6597)




Sometime in the future, google will come out with a consumer technology device. It won't use revolutionary technology, it will use existing technology in a completely new way (like they have now been famous for doing with AJAX). Given that it will need to connect to google's servers, it must have connectivity of some kind. It could be Wi-Fi only (most useful for those people in mountain view (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/11/wi-fi-in-mountain-view.html) This consumer technology device (maybe not the first one, but eventually) will recognize your voice ()

So... this is awkward...

OK, so I figured I'd get a blog and start posting stupid ideas on it, that's my first one.

first post

I win!!!