Project 10^100 GoogleClan.com - Every Familys History, Hearth n Hub. Familys hearth online: key dates, family lore, heritage, tradition, song, ritual, memory- either shared worldwide, within the family or kept private. REMEMBER: VOTE IN JAN2009.

For us all, family is the hearth of everything. Family is where we all start off and where we form our objectivity- by which we judge all aspects of our life and the lives of others.
On one hand it is important to bring the personal family values that have existed for generations into the electronic age so that they can be more easily incorporated into the lives of connected generations. On the other hand, the greatest threat to these traditional values seems to be; that same fast paced more virtual world that is evolving.
If we lose connectedness to our individual family heritage we are in danger of losing our sense of ourselves. Who is to say what might happen to the generations that follow if we become so detached from what went before that we have to reinvent ourselves on the fly. People disconnected from their heritage become easy prey to snake oil salesmen offering cures for their invisible ailments.
We need a benign but powerful way to integrate our sense of family into the evolving electronic world. This benign approach requires a powerful sponsor who is a world leader in multilingual information handling and referencing. But this data must be held in trust and that trust must be sacrosanct and legally watertight, all personal family data must be secure, private and barred from commercial exploitation.
There is one such powerful entity: The Google Corporation. It is so obvious where this mantle must be passed. Googles position as the world leader in information handling and indexing places it in the exact position needed to take on the responsibility and honour of running the GoogleClan.com web resource.
What problem or issue does this idea address?
The current fast paced technological uptake by individuals worldwide induces disconnection between peoples sense of their familys past and future. In such a rapidly changing climate, important traditional family norms become disregarded- even lost forever. This is an imminent danger for all families, but is perhaps most likely to harm those in areas of the world where they have been catapulted into the 21st Century from a much more holistic, naive and locally-bound mindset.
There is a distinct possibility that western cultural norms and values have been inadvertently encoded into the fabric of the WWW and that as the web integrates into the daily lives of indigenous peoples that they will become unhealthily detached from important aspects of their unique identity. Such detachment results in grave and debilitating psychological difficulties. This will affect millions worldwide and also result in the permanent loss to humanity of unrecognised and priceless traditional wisdoms.
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As all the technology already exists, this idea can be implemented, QUICKLY, EASILY and CHEAPLY.
Let's do it! If not now, when?

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[Paulacoogan21]

Seems like this could be a really good idea! Kinda like a bebo or facebook but for individual families, it'd be cool to be able to track my families history and know whatever information I put up about myself will be there in years to come for my great grandkids to see. It's be deadly to have your family tree on the web and be able to click on whoever you want and know how they're keeping!