This isn’t this year’s April fools joke. Google CEO Eric Schmidt a few hours ago announced the company’s plans to organize all human ignorance. The project is touted to be a computational task that can only be feasibly undertaken by Google. When it’s completed Google users will know automatically because next to the ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ button on the search option will be a button which reads ‘I’m Feeling Ignorant’.
At a recent press conference, Schmidt said he’d asked the Google engineers to think of the largest project they would be able to undertake. Several engineers apparently answered that organizing human ignorance is a task no other company could undertake. “Admittedly, human ignorance is vast — perhaps unlimited – but our goal is to organize all of it. Consistent with our mobile strategy, we aim to provide anytime, anywhere ignorance”, Schmidt told reporters.
Google has already tested the scales here, organizing only a small portion of human ignorance. Turned out it’s not going to be a mean feat. “The process so strained our servers that they melted the steel shelves they sit on. We had to take the servers off-line to cool them down”. Schmidt said.
The advantages that this leap in the dark offers are manifold. If a person were embarking on a particular task they could use the Google created repository to map out a path of enlightenment. “Students young and old can expose themselves to ignorance on a scale never before imagined. People will be able to walk around ignorant. Dazed and ignorant. In any country. At any time”, reports PC World.
Schmidt said he’s positive that there’s no other company competing on this front. “I can say with confidence that we know of no other company undertaking this task.”