google desktop search

...is coming. http://desktop.google.com/index.html

one more step into personalized computer service; one more step towards "i, robot"; and one more step towards things i don't know.

similar to gmail, desktop search also aims to free people from organizing files by providing a robust search function. great! so my being cluttered is justified.

but my question is: is finding files the only goal for organizing them? wouldn't a better orgnization optimize the function of the system? if this is true, google is spoiling people for bad like loving grandparents.

also i don't feel very easy with the privacy thing. we already have too many big brothers watching on us in digitized ways we don't know. the information is collected and it exists. it may not be used under the honor system when nothing goes wrong. what if things do go wrong, which is always true?

even if all the information is only available to machines, as google declares, aren't we just building up a robot system that is much more powerful than ourselves? and again "i, robot".

maybe i'm just too old.