Google: Our Saviour?
When I first read about Google's anti-drunk safeguard,
designed to stop people sending drunken emails or having drunken
shopping sprees, I sneered. How stupid do you have to be? I
thought.
I have always taken pride in the fact that I'm pretty bright -
I take time to read the papers, watch the news and was a bit of a
clever clogs at school - yet on Saturday night I could really have
done with Google to save the day.
After a long drinking session - my friend Steve and I scoured
eBay for some hideously overpriced but must-have Kings of Leon tickets and
excitedly placed a bid.
Seven hours later and the reality of our bid hit home - not only
had we got a bit carried away (bidding a hefty £210) but we
had bid on restricted view tickets at the back of the stadium on a
date neither of us could make.
All of sudden it felt like Google had developed its anti-drink
function just for me. Now it leaves me with a pertinent question
(how to get rid of overpriced Kings of Leon tickets) and am I
really one of those stupid people?
Joking aside, it's quite frightening to think that the
world's largest search engine is encroaching into our decision
making like this - will Google soon be deciding which bands I want
to watch? Where I'll buy my groceries from and who to vote for?
You might think it's a bit far-fetched, but the nanny-state is
taking over and big brand power houses are wielding too much power.
Ordinarily, today's news that MPs are trying to ban pub happy
hours would have incensed me further - but then I struck on an idea
that would leave us with the lesser of two evils.
Let the MPs ban happy hour, then there'd be fewer drunk people
and fewer drunks causing havoc online. That way we can all sleep
easy - not to mention, I'd be £210 better off.
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