Google Makes You Change Your Name

Date added: 20-08-2010

Google will tell us whom to marry.

Legislation will change to allow children to change their names to avoid Google search results from their teenage years.

This is what Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, predicts about the future of the company and its activity.

"I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions," Mr. Schmidt said. "They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next."

Google has constantly been collecting your personal information, likes, interests, needs and questions for the past several years. And they have it all well written down. Thus, the company is now looking to be able to answer the questions based on the personal file of the one who is searching.

Thus, we are not too far away from the era when Almighty Google will answer questions such as "What do I want for dinner?" based on our personal diet; "Where should I go on vacation?" based on our individual ski level; or even "Whom should I marry" depending on our preferences for eye color, interests, and income.

Mr. Schmidt predicts that we will soon be allowed to alter our adult self in order to avoid being judged based on what Google knows of our adolescence. "I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time," he says. Google's CEO predicts, apparently seriously, that every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends' social media sites.