Has Bleecker talked to California's governor?

Julian Bleecker talks of a world where information can be readily accessed from entities on the internet known as “blogjects”. These blogjects communicate a small portion of the world to each other and as a result will interact with one another and with humans. This could result in rumors, inaccurate data, mass hysteria, etc… but essentially, I think that Bleecker begins talking about this system of nodes as its own, self-functioning world. Just think, a blogject about gold mines could report that a mine has blown up, as a result, a different blogject on the price of goods could pick that up and change the price of gold before people even get word of it. It’s a pretty crazy idea, right? Maybe not, it sure does make me think of the movie Terminator. In Terminator, humans created this unbelievable defense system that could link with all of its machines and weapons. If it recognized conflict in an area, using the internet it could route combat vehicles and supplies to that particular area, all while humans sit back and watch the show. Machines were making and controlling other machines, as a result, when the system came online, it revolted and started attacking humans. Am I saying Terminator was prophetic? Maybe, but for now it is merely an example of this idea of a self-sustaining world of information that can adapt to itself.

Bleecker seems to make some “far out” claims, but in some cases and to a certain extent, this sort of thing is already happening over the internet. Take me for an example. I am a senior and I am looking for a job. Sure, I want to find a project that is both interesting and rewarding, but at the end of the day I want to make money. My mother always told me “never to put all my eggs in one basket”, so I decided to register with monstertrak.com and see if it could help me get a job. There, I can upload my resume and use it to apply to hundreds of companies, and believe me I have reached the triple digit mark. That’s not interesting. What is interesting is the fact that I can use my resume to apply to many different companies, but monstertrak dissects my resume and doesn’t let me apply to companies that I am not qualified for. To think, an internet site is telling me who I can and can’t apply to. Even so, I have still applied to many companies that I had never heard of before, I merely read their description and if it sounded like I wouldn’t want to kill myself doing that work I applied. Right now I probably have somewhere around 150 of my resumes floating around the internet. Companies can login to monstertrak as well, but they don’t have to go through each and every resume like before. Monstertrak has already ensured that the applicants to their company meet a basic set of requirements. Now, the company exec enters a search word, let’s say “lithography”, he will get a slew of resumes containing that word, including mine, even though I may not have as much experience as the guy who put “photonics laboratory”, I have the buzz words.

That is what our internet has become, buzz words. Barely any one looks at an entire article nowadays. They simply google the word they are interested in and find every instance of that word. Computer programs should have no problem doing the very same thing, but we as the creators must be careful. At some point, on some level, giving this power to computers will in the end cause us to relinquish our control. Entire stock markets could be crashed from a single glitch, who knows what else could follow. I’ll tell you one thing though…I’ll be back…