The Hidden Meaning of Rumors

Time to wax philosophical.

Thanks for Wade Rough for taking the painstaking time (over 3 pages!) yesterday as a reporter/columnist showing an anatomy of a rumor - in this case the Sun-Google rumour. I think it probably gets much more complex and wacky than what he said, but most important we think it points to the fact that rumors are part of a truth that we are all wanting something, some cure for something, and we all want something new and breakthrough (we being people who have been swept up by the tech frenzy of the last twenty years).

Dare we say rumors are the result of a mob mentality - a mob sped up by the speed at which information travels and can now be published.

The Impact of Emerging Technologies: Google, Sun, and a New PC: Anatomy of a Rumor - Technology Review: "Thursday, January 19, 2006
Google, Sun, and a New PC: Anatomy of a Rumor

Talk on the Internet of a 'Google PC' has proved false, so far. We look at how the rumors got started -- and whether they may contain a shred of truth.

By Wade Roush

For more than three months, the Internet has been abuzz with talk of new technologies that might emerge from a collaboration between search giant Google and networking and software provider Sun Microsystems."