Wed 4 Oct 2006
No body can monopolize the truth. But what Google’s CEO said in his statement is somewhat a starking reminder that maybe in the future we can said the truth and only the truth.
Google boss warns politicians about Internet power – Yahoo! News
He predicted that “truth predictor” software would, within five years, “hold politicians to account.” People would be able to use programmes to check seemingly factual statements against historical data to see to see if they were correct.
“One of my messages to them (politicians) is to think about having every one of your voters online all the time, then inputting ‘is this true or false.’ We (at Google) are not in charge of truth but we might be able to give a probability,” he told the newspaper.
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