Google Has Hit a New Low

Published in El Mundo
(Spain) on 01 January 2019
by Raúl Del Pozo (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Megan Smith. Edited by Helaine Schweitzer.
An app and a credit card. That’s all you need to use one of Google’s driverless cars in any city in the United States. We have to surrender ourselves to the creation of the white men of Silicon Valley.

However, it’s not the driverless taxi that the technology giant has brought within reach which fascinates me, but rather a free search engine connected to all knowledge. You can learn what is known, what has been known and what will be known in an instant, just by typing on a computer or a mobile phone.

By ‘googling’ you can find your father, learn who is going to win an election, and confirm whether the person who said "Carthage must be destroyed" was Cato the Elder or Cato the Younger. Billions of people are hooked on the journey toward information and delight.

The influence of this network is so great that Donald Trump, having emerged from a storm cloud, now accuses the internet search engine of favoring the Democrats. Besides, all parties use paid hitmen to insult each other and anonymously slander their opponents.

It said that the three geniuses who devised modern day scientific thinking were Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx. Darwin was the founder of rationalist biology on the parallel, although unequal, evolution of the scorpion and the monkey. Freud, now outdated, invented psychoanalysis. Marx rectified the bases of politics, which Lenin exaggerated, saying that his doctrine was all-powerful because it was accurate. He was mistaken in thinking that capitalism was transitory, but it is clear that he changed the way of reasoning.

It is very possible that someday it will be said that the cultural revolution, a thousand times superior to what the press reported, was organized by Sergey Brin and Larry Page on a pingpong table in a California garage. They predicted that "Google will be the third half of our brain." The two nerds created an infinite data sequence synthesized in an algorithm and were inspired by the term ‘googol’, which refers to the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.

The prodigious search engine is always on call, like a pharmacy. It directed us away from the vice that is television, it took us to the library without having to trawl the shelves, and it taught us, without cultural ministers, to navigate the latest knowledge and information. We connect without cable and we travel with all the planet’s beings. There’s nothing decent about threatening us with a driverless car in order to make even more money.


Una aplicación y una tarjeta de crédito: eso es todo lo que se necesita para usar un coche sin conductor de Google en alguna ciudad de Estados Unidos. Hay que rendirse ante lo que ha inventado el hombre blanco de Silicon Valley.Pero a mí, lo que me fascina no es que el gigante tecnológico haya puesto al alcance del último mono un taxi sin auriga, sino un buscador gratuito conectado con todo el conocimiento. Puedes conocer lo que se sabe, lo que se ha sabido y lo que se sabrá, en un instante, tecleando en un ordenador o un teléfono móvil.Googleando puedes encontrar a tu padre, saber quién va a ganar unas elecciones y confirmar si el que dijo "Cartago debe ser destruido" fue Catón el Viejo o Catón el Joven. Miles de millones de personas están enganchadas en ese viaje hacia la información y el deleite.La influencia de las redes es tan grande que Trump, surgido de una tormenta de la nube, acusa ahora a los buscadores de internet de favorecer a los demócratas. Además, todos los partidos utilizan sicarios a sueldo para injuriarse entre sí y calumniar a los adversarios con libelos anónimos.Se decía que los tres genios que habían ideado el pensamiento científico de la modernidad eran Darwin, Freud y Marx. Darwin fue el fundador de la biología racionalista sobre la evolución paralela -aunque desigual- del escorpión y el mono. Freud, ahora pasado de moda, inventó el psicoanálisis. Carlos Marx rectificó las bases de la política; Lenin exageró al decir que su doctrina es omnipotente porque es exacta: se equivocó al pensar que el capitalismo tenía carácter transitorio, pero está claro que cambió la manera de razonar. Es muy posible que algún día se dirá que la revolución cultural, mil veces superior a la que iluminó la imprenta, fue la que organizaron en una mesa de ping-pong de un garaje de California Sergey Brin y Larry Page. Ellos profetizaron: "Google será el otro tercio de nuestro cerebro". Los dos empollones crearon una secuencia infinita de datos sintetizados en un algoritmo y se inspiraron en el termino gúgol, que se refiere al número 1 seguido de 100 ceros. Este prodigioso buscador está siempre de guardia, como las farmacias. Nos alejó del vicio de la televisión, nos acercó a la biblioteca sin tener que gatear por el anaquel y nos enseñó, sin clérigos de la cultura, a navegar por el espacio del conocimiento y la información de última hora. Conectamos sin cable y viajamos con todos los seres del planeta. No es decente que por ganar más millones nos amenacen con un coche sin conductor.
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