Comments on: Google Energy: It’s about the grid http://davidlew.is/google-energy-its-about-the-grid/ David Lewis finally blogs Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:37:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jeff_molander http://davidlew.is/google-energy-its-about-the-grid/comment-page-1/#comment-70 jeff_molander Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:09:50 +0000 http://davidlew.is/?p=240#comment-70 David...<br>Brilliantly laid out and argued. At the heart of your argument (but perhaps not vital to Google's ultimately rolling out such services) is a reliance on Google -- an acceptance of what we (the consuming public) have already shown all but a complete willingness to participate in. A massive Ignorance Economy where we make trade-offs for everything from novelties to, yes, truly valuable services. We trade privacy and data for the candy. We're already doing it: ie. businesses buy media from the same company that analyzes the ROI in exchange for free, world class Web analytics dashboards.<br><br>Ironically, I think much of what powers the chatter you refer to (re: becoming the next Enron/big energy company) is based purely on the *perception* of Google being a science-minded company. I'm not saying that they're not but I am suggesting that what you've laid out is far more logical/well-reasoned in terms of where this is going NEXT. David…
Brilliantly laid out and argued. At the heart of your argument (but perhaps not vital to Google's ultimately rolling out such services) is a reliance on Google — an acceptance of what we (the consuming public) have already shown all but a complete willingness to participate in. A massive Ignorance Economy where we make trade-offs for everything from novelties to, yes, truly valuable services. We trade privacy and data for the candy. We're already doing it: ie. businesses buy media from the same company that analyzes the ROI in exchange for free, world class Web analytics dashboards.

Ironically, I think much of what powers the chatter you refer to (re: becoming the next Enron/big energy company) is based purely on the *perception* of Google being a science-minded company. I'm not saying that they're not but I am suggesting that what you've laid out is far more logical/well-reasoned in terms of where this is going NEXT.

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