The thing I love the most about the internet is that you get to program yourself with the information of your choosing, as opposed to the television or radio where it is only one way programming. I listen to the music that I like, I watch the shows that I want. I do NOT like the thought that even my youtube video could have some sort of subliminal product placement just because the brand hired “real” people to make a stupid video.

The very thought of Google teaming up with Brands and having closed door meetings gives me chills. To think that this very well could mean that the “internet” (I put it in quotes because to a good portion of the public, Google is the internet) can become a one way medium, only further proves that we very well could be living out a science fiction novel.

To continue with the idea that we are living in a science fiction novel, I guess that means people in search have to be leaders of the rebellion to make it so the information passed in the serps isn’t the only thing that people trust. Because if the internet becomes a one way medium, what freedoms do we really have? Where are we safe to find information that isn’t bought and paid for? Hell, with so many sophisticated Bot softwares running a muck out there I don’t even know if my friends and followers are real anymore or if I’m just being served up content from someone is advertising to me because I submitted a query.

I’ll take the paranoid spot because I see this more and more with every day that passes.

Of course, I hope I’m wrong, but with all of the different technologies that exist, and with secret councils being unveiled, and with the global economic situation being in the state it’s in, the world population is going to start wanting some answers and solutions, and hopefully this isn’t the way it begins.