Knowing Too Much
There was a big splashy story on Google in the New York Times Style section on Sunday. There was a nice benchmark-type where-we-are-now quote I liked:

"In one sense, with Google, everything is knowable now," said Esther Dyson, who publishes Release 1.0, a technology-industry newsletter. "We were much more passive about information in the past. We would go to the library or the phone book, and if it wasn't there, we didn't worry about it. Now, people can't as easily drift from your life. We can't pretend to be ignorant."

But maybe a better signpost for where we are going can be found over at New Yorkish, where we learn all sorts of facts (via a Google search) about the author of the NYT Google story. Read Googling David Hochman and find out what's on the writer's Amazon wishlist, that he stayed at the Coyote Inn in Palm Springs, that he likes yoga and that he once interviewed his own wife for an article he did for Forbes. Ouch.
- posted by Amy @ 3/16/2004 11:43:00 AM