Read on Slashdot today that Google is starting an SMS search service. Before you guys all get paranoid about Google assessing your SMS: no, it's searching on the go using SMS message.
I particularily like the points they've listed as to "why you should use Goggle SMS". That includes "Look up dictionary definitions to expand your vocabulary or prove a point." Charming. Can you imagine having a heated argument with someone and they have to consult their cell phone every so often to make a point? (George W Bush should take notes on this service. Surly it'll save a lot of embarrassment should he actually knows what the big words that the reporters are using.)
I do think that Google search might actually be useful though, for things like finding restaurants and checking out prices when shopping. Although it's one of those technology that makes me think whether technology is really spoiling us.
There's a very fine line between convenience and absurdness. Look at the toilet in Japan which lets you regulate the temperature of the toilet seat. Some folks might consider that as being convenient. Others decided it's crazy, and rather not sit on a warm toilet seat. Where to draw the line?
Nowadays, everything is all "mobilised" and information just follows wherever you go. I don't really know whether it's a good thing. Surely it saves time. But for what? What are we doing with all these time that are "saved"? it's not like we do much anyway, and now even when we're shopping we can do that at the comfort of our own home, they would even deliver the goods to our doorsteps. All these convenience... for what? Not like I'm getting enough exercise, I was counting on shopping to be my main source of exercise.
Maybe I can blame the advance in technology for my weight.
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