Talk:This WEEK in Google

Phone Number

I was wondering if the phone number (979) 589-4486 is still be used or should it be removed? Thanks Stevencrader 11:54, 4 June 2010 (PDT)

Monopoly issue

The cast of This Week In Google is continuing to argue that if Google does not digitize the books that are out there, who is going to do it. They are arguing that if Google does not do this, we are losing out on an overall social good. That may be the case, but when viewed in the case of our latest economic collapse, a large part of the problem was that the companies that we bailed out with billions upon billions of dollars were deemed "too big to fail." The argument was that AIG and Fanny Mae and the like were so big, that if we did not rescue them, the entire financial industry would crumble. Many of the economists were arguing that in the future what we needed to do was prevent companies from becoming too big to fail in the first place.

This may be the crossroads that Google is now standing at. Sure Google can digitize all the books and sure that is an overall positive good for the world and sure no other company can do it, but possibly we should look further into the future and insure that Google is not the next "too big to fail" company that we have to bail out in 20 years.

Just a thought. Would love a response at mannixlab@gmail.com

Sincerely,

Brian Mannix