A really disturbing look into the future embedded in a harmless looking story can be found over on Blogoscoped. Here’s a short excerpt of the must-read:

When Pete opens his Communication account, he has 12 new messages. Google Communication combines emails, voice messages, collaborative documents and everything else into a single unified stream, ordered by automatically personalized prioritization cues. The top priority right now, Communication decided, was a phone text message from Pete’s boss earlier that morning. “You got to come in early today Pete, the bots are acting crazy.” Pete works from home, as do most of his friends, so he opens up his augmented reality clothing store hooked up to the webcam. He usually works in a simple morning bathrobe but his colleagues won’t ever notice, thanks to the realtime 3D overlays they’ll see instead. It’s nice of Google to release the augmented reality overlays for free, and the AdWords powered sponsor labels on the clothes are a price Pete’s willing to pay.

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All the web’s in Pete’s native tongue, and he can’t remember a time when it was any different. Whichever site he visits, be it originally created in Japanese, Hebrew, Botspeak or whatever language out there, Google Translator transforms into the language Pete’s is most fluently with… not just text, but also imagery, audio content in videos, everything. The Google Translator ships straight with the superbook with no way to switch translation providers, but Pete’s happy with its results. He’s used to encountering strange language on some sites and there’s a constant barrier of cultural misunderstandings, but people by and large got used to all of this, and whenever there’s a verbal fight about to erupt, it’s easy to blame the issue on those “pesky translator software” and make peace.