[makeitdouble]

> Google has the ability to see, aggregate, and now influence what you write in Google docs and Gmail.

Interestingly Microsoft has that power with the Office suite for nearly 40 years now (only a decade if we want to focus on the cloud connected area), do you see specific dystopian influences on society stemming from that ?

[alanh]

There is a big difference from the 'possibility' of adding remote reporting of local data (essentially zero for e.g. Word 95) vs. the possibility of having a server do one more thing with information already on the server (trivially easy)

[spaniard89277]

Yet they didn't do anything remotely similar for 40 years.