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Next up: Google Cavity Search

By Mary Jane Irwin, 2:20 PM on Mon Nov 26 2007, 190 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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Cory Doctorow turned a few Google-operated spy cameras his way when he wrote a fictionalized account of a dystopian future where the search engine stumbled and fell down the slippery slope into evil. We're sure "Scroogled," which appeared in the September issue of Radar, wasn't supposed to launch an entire genre of Google fiction. But it has. Someone has gone and written an account of a world where Google scans and indexes the human body — everybody's human body — for public search. (Photo by Jason Upton)

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