OPEN MIKE NIGHTMARE

“Your phone is your omnipresent microphone to the world, a way to publish pictures, emails, texts, Twitters, and blog entries.”

Google wireless guru Andy Rubin, on how the Android operating system will enable bad cell-phone behavior in every conceivable medium, Official Google Blog, 19 September 2008

GOOGLE WANTS TO BE YOUR FRIEND

“So what’s our straightforward definition of the ideal search engine? Your best friend with instant access to all the world’s facts and a photographic memory of everything you’ve seen and know.”

Google executive Marissa Mayer, on her company’s ultracreepy future, the Official Google Blog, 10 September 2008