Google of the Future

In 2002 Paul Ford wrote a brilliant speculative short story about the “Google of the Future.” In it he discovers Google bots crawling his apartment indexing and posting all the information they find there. Well, the future is here thanks to Swedish hackers!

Enter the GåågleBot: “a ‘home crawler’ consisting of a vacuum roomba with an on board webserver and camera. While the vacuum goes about its business, it extracts text from the images it takes. The text is later put in a database on the roomba and searchable through a web interface.

via Boing Boing