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Re:Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the ... by dhimes on Monday February 01, 2016 @09:59PM (#11017424)
Don't forget that Facebook is going to be a big player in this game as well- especially facial recognition, where everybody is helping them by tagging people in their photos.
Re:Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the ... by tajen on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @03:03AM (#11018163)
If we characterize companies as strongly as "Apple, a consumer product company" and "Google an AI company", then Facebook is a worldwide identity tracking agency. They could pivot and be in charge of delivering birth certificates, DNA groups, ethnicity mapping, insurance-bank-police profiling... In fact I expect it to play a very major role in wars to determine targets.
Re:Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the ... by unprepare on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @07:55AM (#11019126)
you may want to read the book "The Circle" by Dave Eggers. It is about this exact concept, and is quite good (I'm actually only nearly finished with the book, so maybe the ending will suck and i won't recommend it anymore, great so far though!)