Googlezon!

Katie, thanks for your perseverance in posting that link. Much food for thought there, and not just for journalism majors.

I shared the link with the College Media Advisers listserv. This is an excerpt from one of the responses, from an adviser in North Carolina:

"I don't really know whether to laugh or cry. Is this an image of a bright future? Or, is it an image of a dark future in which Big Brother isn't the government, but a corporate entity instead. Wow! ... Well, science fiction hasn't gotten too much correct despite my many years reading Huxley, Bradbury, Asimov and many of the others. This visual seems more like science fiction, but perhaps more in the Mary Shelley model. Googlezon seems more the monstrous creation than the enlightened hope for future citizens."

Googlezon does suggest Ginsberg’s Moloch, doesn’t it? "Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!"