[itistoday]

Google in 2084.

[effgee]

Originally Posted by itistoday

What will Google be in 2084?

history.

[rickey939]

[wallinbl]

A very large number.

[wallinbl]

What is the name of the piece of music playing in the background?

[Tesseract]

Loathed.

Isn't that what happens to large companies that dominate their field, even ones that are initially revered, after a long enough time?

The only company I can think of that has successfully recovered from that state is IBM.

[asb819]

Excellent!

wallinbl, the piece is "O Fortuna", from "Carmina Burana" by Carl Orff.

[asb819]

agh double post

[wallinbl]

Originally Posted by asb819

wallinbl, the piece is "O Fortuna", from "Carmina Burana" by Carl Orff.

Any idea how it came to be used so widely in ominous movie scenes?

[El Gato]

Originally Posted by wallinbl

Any idea how it came to be used so widely in ominous movie scenes?

Because it gives you that feeling down betwixt your legs like like your buddy just got kicked in the nuts and you're next.

[ASIMO]

Still in beta.

[CharlesS]

Originally Posted by wallinbl

Any idea how it came to be used so widely in ominous movie scenes?

Yeah, it is kind of weird that a piece of music that is a setting of medieval poetry gets used for a "dystopian future" sort of thing as in the link above. But as to exactly why, I don't think anyone knows. Probably just because it's got that big, dark, ominous sound, more than anything else.

What I want to know is how a small, simple bagatelle (Für Elise) that Beethoven never even published somehow ended up becoming his most famous piano work, over all of the monumental piano sonatas. People are strange...

[Mithras]

Well, I'll be dead, so who really cares?

[nredman]

goggle will be like lycos or altavista is now. i'll be dead so i could care less

[ASIMO]

Originally Posted by nredman

goggle will be like lycos or altavista is now. i'll be dead so i could care less

I bet I could care less than you could, but then again I could not care less that I could in fact care less than you could.

- GooglePorn®(beta)

[JoshuaZ]

Google will be... ruler of the WORLD! Yet, always in beta.

[asb819]

Yeah it's just the sound of it... it can't really be taken much further than that. As for Fur Elise, the melody actually is quite nice despite how overplayed it may be, and it just so happens that the piece is a good length and difficulty for early-intermediate pianists. As a result it sorta became a staple in the piano repertoire.

OK, back to Google!

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[TubaMuffins]

i figured Google 2084 would be in color, but maybe b&w will make a comback like LPs did over CDs

[macintologist]

I'll be 98 by then. Probably still alive

[Ozmodiar]

Originally Posted by wallinbl

Any idea how it came to be used so widely in ominous movie scenes?

For the same reason Chariots of Fire is the standard theme for overcoming an internal or external struggle in slow motion, winning a race in slow motion, or coming to terms with a tragedy in slow motion.

[liaodan1234]

slightly off topic, is anyone having trouble getting into google or gmail at the moment?

[liaodan1234]

seems to be ok now

[Eriamjh]

[rozwado1]

I'll be 102 and won't give a sh1t.

[MacPoker101]

Google would finally know how does it feel to be dropped into the SandBox.

[Psychonaut]

The Singularity will have happened way before then, therefore the question is irrelevant.