http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/fiction http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/fiction 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)

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=326316&view=rss&microfeed=true The latest issue of Radar, the on-again, off-again pop-culture ragazine, has a short story by Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow. "Scroogled" imagines a world where Google has slid all the way down the slippery slope into full-on evilness. The scary thing? In his speeches and blog posts, Doctorow veers toward irrational, paranoid rhetoric that's easily dismissed. But in his fiction, a darkly dystopian future where Google and the Department of Homeland Security have all but merged, where Google's Wi-Fi hotspots feature webcams that track your every move, doesn't just seem likely — it seems inevitable.

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