The business model of the Internet is intermediation.
Google Duplex (Google Assistant capable of making calls on your behalf) is branded as an "assistant" but it's in the long run a middleman: something that both consumer and producer will consider a necessary evil.
Google Duplex (Google Assistant capable of making calls on your behalf) is branded as an "assistant" but it's in the long run a middleman: something that both consumer and producer will consider a necessary evil.
Consumers will consider the assistant necessary because they'll be dependent on it, either because they forgot how to research info on their own, or because they are time deprived.
Producers (small businesses) will consider the assistant necessary much like how Google-first SEO has become important for small business.
Google is migrating from Search to Suggest but they're not changing their middleman status: they'll influence small bizs to be "compliant".
Google is migrating from Search to Suggest but they're not changing their middleman status: they'll influence small bizs to be "compliant".
Google's only objective is to become a inescapable black hole, a necessary evil that you cannot (even if you want to) live without. A parasite.
And it accomplishes that through these convincing and seemingly benevolent Google I/O demos.
And it accomplishes that through these convincing and seemingly benevolent Google I/O demos.
How to break free from that intermediation? Open source and open code.
It's surprising, because Google's (Search) intermediation used to be based on centralization, but Google Assistant intermediation is based on simply hiding the secret sauce.
It's surprising, because Google's (Search) intermediation used to be based on centralization, but Google Assistant intermediation is based on simply hiding the secret sauce.
With open (society and business) data, plus your personal data (owned solely by you on your local devices), you could have an Assistant-like open source software that covers the same use cases.
It would potentially be better tham GA, with a modular and plugin-based system.
It would potentially be better tham GA, with a modular and plugin-based system.
Because of the way this game is incentived, it means Google will go full-proprietary closed source. It will be an enemy to open source, like Microsoft was.
