Google me

Not really necessary... you'll get back to this blog!

These days Google.com turns 10 years old. I'm far from being an IT person but I don't think it should take long to understand the revolutionary impact this two American guys (one a Russian immigrant) have had on the world when started a one milion dollars investment with a mission that aims "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."

Today the company is worth 164 hundreds thousand more the initial investment; "to google" has become a verb; and such a big company is also among the most excellent case practice of human resource management.

I guess we live in times that historians may soon mark as the information era... it's not important to know something, but to know how to get to know it... hence, google it!
We also live in a world where distances are reduced, people travel and get great experiences (does anyone really dislike easyjet, ryanair?!)... A world were keeping in touch (with tool like Facebook, another great phenomena... and many like that!) is now a must becoming everyday easier.

The math here is easy and the result is Hope: hope for a world where real democracy rules thanks to the universal accessibility of information, where people understand each other because they have met, kept in touch and learned from each other...

But Veronica, an IT girl who strives to see the benefits of Facebook, is right too... Are we going to miss the human touch? Is it by googling you that I'll get to know you?! Is the traveling moving us away from our roots and those we have loved since our early years?

It's the old tough matter of 2 vectors building up a third dimension... meantime I sent an SMS to Roberta, an old friend who grew up and lives in Sicily: "google.com is turning 10 today: they started from a garage and have become a verb now! And you?! You are turning 29 today... ohh.. but it's all right: you have found love and are enjoying your life! Happy birthday"