It’s hip2b2

After writing about Google as Big Brother, I just remembered another Google project that points in this ominous direction. The project is Google Compute.

Google Compute is a new feature of the Google Toolbar. The goal of Google Compute is to make a contribution to science by enabling Google Toolbar users to easily donate their idle computer time to worthwhile causes. The Google Compute version of the Google Toolbar detects when a computer is idle and puts it to work on complex mathematical problem from such fields as drug design and global climate modeling … The first beneficiary of this effort is Folding@home, a non-profit academic research project at Stanford University that is trying to understand the structure of proteins so they can develop better treatments for a number of illnesses.

This, together with Google Desktop, can Google have control of your computer too?

With the up and coming Google Payments and Google Finance, can it eventually control world commerce or at least a significant part of it? Or maybe just enough for the WTO to treat it like a separate economy?

By the way, Google Pages is finally out again. Will Google will control your websites too?

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