Using a Google Employee as A Human Google App .... is Google People ?

Stare down at your phone, or have Siri shout directions at you ...it's so impersonal ..so clinical . As a stranger in a strange land you may use or rely on Google Maps or Navigation.. as I had done at that very moment, learning that Google's Santa Monica offices were very close to the bus stop I was heading for...... on my way to the Pier, without a clue how to get there .. June Gloom making LA look like Blackpool in October.. ..with days to kill before E3 started 

I found myself  waiting to catch  a bus with A Google Employee who was on his way to surf for real, surf board in tow ...  I asked for directions on how to reach the Santa Monica Pier .. and he proceeded to kindly give me directions ... whilst we talked about the June Gloom and a little GLASS gossip ( there are none in the Santa Monica HQ so look elsewhere people)  . Then it occured to me I just used this Google employee as a human Google Map.. or Navigator So we have a human manifestation of  Google ...in the flesh guiding me to my destination..Did his knowledge stem from extensive exposure to working on Google Maps ?   .. I could have just used Google Maps on my phone.. but hey it's always cool to connect and gain some first hand knowledge and this young ones is how we used to get around in the before (Google)  time...

We know or experience Google as a "thing" a piece of code or software, an impersonal service on the other end of which there might be a google of other such people ( depending on your Google+ following) that communicate with us across the great electronic divide that is the Interweb ..using the same Google Apps ...  how refreshing then to actually communicate with a physical manifestation of Google .. in this case a Human Google Map... or Navigator ...  

Who knows maybe after the globe trotting cameras  have stopped after the power goes out , come the revolution Google 3.0 will be made up of People running around dispensing knowledge and help to their fellow man ...just like the Santa Monica Google Employee who got on the bus with me ... just like people used to before ... only with the Adverts on their person perhaps...  what? You thought monetisation would end with civilisation?

Now it's your turn : humanise Google :  grab a Google employee and ask them a question ...that would I think be using them as a human manifestation of a search engine ... or as they used to teach us in school being inquisitive ... or what was that phrase social networking.. which used to mean something else in them thar far flung days ... 

So see .. the future of Google is People after all ... or will be.. it will be !

More  tales of adventures and inadvertent contact with Software , hardware and video game devs  and the deep and oh so meaningful philosophical questions raised ..on my mess about in the USA to follow... 

Google Surfer Dude from Jersey ,thanks for the help, hope you caught your wave and the water wasn't too cold...

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