Google is going to kill Vint Cerf (after they finish the island lair)
Posted on September 9, 2005
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No question about it, Google is building their own Internet. First they aggregate all the relevant data from the existing one, then they begin building a platform-agnostic application layer, then they start buying up excess dark fiber and now they’ve gone and hired Vint Cerf.
When I was a kid I loved spy movies, James Bond-like stuff (who am I kidding, I still love them) and I always used to wonder: who built the secret lairs that the bad guys had? A complex, hidden, armed island fortress capable of launching missiles is no small feat, you need engineers and architects and suppliers, labourers and caterers.
As an evil genius you’d either need to hire an evil construction company with whom you could work (which is very unlikely since if there were such a construction company out there who specialized in heavily-armed, cloaked evil island lairs there’d probably be a James Bond movie devoted to him going in and kicking the crap out them too - some problems you have to nip in the bud), or you, as an evil genius, would need to hire a ton of people on the pretense of doing good, and then kill them all at the end so they don’t expose you.
Which begs the question: how does an evil genius get good people to work for him? By lying of course:
Have you ever wanted to change the world? Benevolent billionaire philanthropist seeks scientists, architects, site formen, contracts, caterers and henchmen for long-term top secret ground-breaking project. Transportation included, must be willing to relocate. No pets.
And of course you’d need to mislead the rest of the world too, through subterfuge and misdirection. You’d need to hide your true intentions. And what’s the best place to hide something, something like your fiendish plans for world domination? In plain sight of course.
Vint Cert, you are so dead once Larry and Sergey finish the secret island lair and the moon base.
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