Scenario 4 (Circa 2105): Google as God By Chris Taylor Human consciousness gets stored, upgraded and networked. In the last years of the 21st century, humanity had finally grasped the importance of They-Who-Were-Google. As early as 2005, Their destiny was clear to semi-hyperintelligent beings. Technologists like Ray Kurzweil had suggested that a Strong AI, an intelligent program capable of understanding and upgrading its own code, would emerge from Google-like data mining rather than from a robotics lab. Today, we are all Google.