I dreamt of the Google corporation. Specifically - a massive factory with a beautiful turbulent waterfall on its end wall. We moved around the factory in special anti-gravity chairs following a set route. The factory was extremely modern - instead of machines and workers, all tasks were performed by autonomous robots capable of hovering(anti-grav?). Their shapes were humanoid, but thicker, shorter, and of a dark metallic color, kind of like the color of wet asphalt, but shiny. The factory was multi-story and very large, and instead of stairs there were massive gaps in the floor, which makes sense - what the hell do anti-gravity robots and chairs need stairs for?
Based on these fragmented details, I draw a conclusion. In the future, Google will develop autonomous intelligent robots capable of quickly and expertly manufacturing anything. Thus, Google will become the grandest transnational corporation for the production of goods and services. The factory looked a tad gloomy, though not scary. Therefore, I still hope that Google won't abuse its newly gained power and won't establish total informational and material control over the entire planet.
Google's current (real) motto is: "Our mission is to organize world's information". Considering this motto, Google's enormous capitalization, and the well-known scandals involving users' private data (Google Web Accelerator, Google Search, Google Desktop Search), a cyberpunk scenario playing out has a non-zero probability.
Dream
2006-05-19