Today, I was watching Human Target on Hulu when a commercial for Google's Epic Demos caught my eye. These girls successfully ordered Indian food in Hindi using Google Translator. I had to check it out for myself.
After misusing this fine piece of technology (saying dirty words and all my crazy thoughts), I fell in love with this thing! Unlike other translators that translate each. word. separately., the improved Google translator understands the context. I put in "The Hangover" and it gave me the Spanish name for the movie, not the word for a literal hangover.
The thing has audio for the translations (for some languages, not all). It gives off the Steven Hawking vibe, but it conveys the message clear.
In short, I'm going to have fun giving my boyfriend the silent treatment this weekend. Thanks, Google!
Friday, December 17, 2010
Thursday, December 16, 2010
The Internet Lacks Depth
The internet, of course, is our gateway to knowing anything about nearly everything. However, I find an area of information the internet does lack: The answers to life's deeper questions...or at least deeper than "What's on TV tonight?"
Old friends and I keep tabs on each other through Facebook. So, the age-old saying "You probably won't think about them in ten years" has been proven wrong. I pretty much know how the people I knew ten years ago are doing now, and it's pretty profound how are lives have changed in this seemingly small amount of time.
Thinking about this lead me to search Google for 'self-fulfillment'. It suggested a book on Amazon.
Now, it's not Google's fault it couldn't lead me to feeling like less of a failure because I haven't accomplished anything notable yet. However, it made me realize: There are problems that cannot be solved with a Google Search. (Perhaps Bing?)
It's profound to think that the internet holds the opinions of all the world, yet no one knows how to achieve self-fulfillment or has the perfect cure for boredom or knows how to improve a relationship.
Perhaps I should be the geek who creates the website to solve all of these problems. Though, the fact I'm looking for them probably means I don't have a clue about the answer. This project would require a lot of time and thought.
Either that or surrender to the notion that the internet will never have all the answers.
Old friends and I keep tabs on each other through Facebook. So, the age-old saying "You probably won't think about them in ten years" has been proven wrong. I pretty much know how the people I knew ten years ago are doing now, and it's pretty profound how are lives have changed in this seemingly small amount of time.
Thinking about this lead me to search Google for 'self-fulfillment'. It suggested a book on Amazon.
Now, it's not Google's fault it couldn't lead me to feeling like less of a failure because I haven't accomplished anything notable yet. However, it made me realize: There are problems that cannot be solved with a Google Search. (Perhaps Bing?)
It's profound to think that the internet holds the opinions of all the world, yet no one knows how to achieve self-fulfillment or has the perfect cure for boredom or knows how to improve a relationship.
Perhaps I should be the geek who creates the website to solve all of these problems. Though, the fact I'm looking for them probably means I don't have a clue about the answer. This project would require a lot of time and thought.
Either that or surrender to the notion that the internet will never have all the answers.
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