I was reading this article and I’m pretty shocked there are people who wouldn’t want Google to inform them that they should go get a check up for Cancer. Cancer is a very unpredictable disease and can affect anyone for no reason and if caught early it can be treated much easier than if let go. I think the potential for Google to be able to trace that early is almost equatable to finding the cure of cancer. It’s really appalling that people wouldn’t want to know that they have caught it early.

I’ve always imagined in the future when/if robots existed that this would be a similar function of them. Possibly I’ve seen this in a robot movie – but the ability to scan a humans body and discover minute issues like heightened heart rates, viral infections or even a tumor. This would be incredibly beneficial. With the assumption that we all want to live as long as possible – a complementary system to your primary care physician would absolutely accomplish this. Mainly I find this relevant because the majority of people are irresponsibly with their health – they would benefit from this because many won’t go to the doctor when they feel a slight pain – they claim “it’ll go away”. I still doubt that many people would actually go if Google found something. But having it there would only help. I don’t understand why anyone wouldn’t want this.

I guess I should say that I understand that people feel like it might be a violation of privacy. And that is an attitude shared about most things Google does and similarly with other Internet giants like Amazon. Although I mainly believe that privacy is still an easy choice in this country. The reason we use Google is because it is free and convenient. But we still live in a world where you can find all the same information in the library or a newspaper. People just choose to get it from a company with private interests. Then people complain they are acting on their private interests and profiting while simultaneously helping you. I don’t find complaints against giant corporations and their data mining valid or sound. What else would you expect them to do with the opportunities in front of them.

Overall, I would be more than happy to get an alert if my body is dying. I would love to know and prevent that.

As a closer – if some divine force told you that you would get in a car accident later in the day – wouldn’t you want to know that so you could avoid cars? Or would you prefer the ignorance