Googled

Short film 'Googled' by They're Using Tools! ©2009. Story written by Dave Chalker and B. Adam Russell. Narration by B. Adam Russell. Animation by Melinda Rainsberger.

HIGHER REZ VERSION: http://vimeo.com/7460261
http://www.theyreusingtools.com
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While this is obviously emulating a certain website's features, all images, graphics, icons and logos were created by They're Using Tools! and no screenshots were used.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• animation
• apocalypse
• google
• Providence
• Rhode Island
• Lovecraft
• narration
• motion graphics
• street view
• end of the world
• data mining
• hackers
• internet
• servers
• data storage
• confession

[SpiralOfWhite]

Only if we let it happen. This same argument could of been set up many times through the ages. Women used to not be able to send letters because they were so controlled by males you could argue mail opened people lives up around the world. Then the telephone. You could be call at any time of day within a moment interrupting peoples lives. Then home cameras. Your private life could be caught and other people could view it. It is only a problem if we let it become one. If

[melindarainsberger]

@SpiralOfWhite This is a work of fiction. This is not meant to be a work based on facts or evidence. Much in the way Dr. Strangelove contains reference to actual technology--the atomic bomb. Or Jaws is set on an actual beach. Elements of this film refer to real events/technology, but it is not in a whole plausible that Google will destroy the world with free wi-fi.

[SUPERBUGG842]

stumbleupon must think i'm paranoid...

[isaacmannion]

Nice Vid. Nice to see it hosted on a google site.

[jeantourage]

this guy talks like a douchebag

[trashfox89]

i wonder what Larry Page thinks of this.

[thesancezzz]

My phone has wi-fi and cath all wifi on city and connect all always

They can wach my porn -.-

[dabbyRI]

@detheter - Look at 1930's Germany to understand what the potential consequences of losing privacy are. The Nazi's made jewish folks give up information so they could be tracked and eventually exterminated. Look to more recent genocides to see how ethnic or religious minorities are singled out and persecuted. Now imagine the potential with Google's or Facebook's massive data stores of everyone and everything. Embarrassing is subjective. What is legit today may not be in the future.

[dabbyRI]

@detheter - The danger is in the correlation of data you surrender knowingly via your profile: name, age, location likes and dislikes (yes it can be falsified) to what you unknowingly surrender... search queries, clicks, circle of friends, health data purchasing history. Google throws NOTHING away. As political situations change, you can potentially be persecuted or at least ostracized. That is the danger. It may not even be google, but someone who inherits/buys the data down the road.

[dabbyRI]

Google is rolling out free internet in select areas. Ars Technica has an article about it today. Again, my only criticism of the video is that the threat of google as supreme data miner and owner of "all you base" is ignored. Hacks and hackers will always exist no matter who owns the data. I worry more about the owner.

[Nadesiko04]

@melindarainsberger Works of fiction often become more than fiction. Jules Verne's work are a prime example, if you want something more modern you have Neuromancer, that describes pretty accurately the internet phenomenon before it even existed. The age of information is heading towards an increasing over-connection; I wouldn't be surprised if something like this truly happened.

[SpiralOfWhite]

@melindarainsberger Oh, okay then, Good job. You had me thinking you were taking yourself seriously, It was very late a night when I saw it and I did not see the details or I would of realized with the"Story written" and the "Lovecraft" tag etc.. I would of understood better.