Boxes and Glue

I highly doubt anybody will notice that the first screenshot I took from the new Android SDK includes a Google search on Dial G for Google, so I need to explain it here :).
It is my subtle hommage to the wave Google is unleashing. It steals the title of a story from Arthur C. Clarke that I enjoy a lot. Dial F for Frankenstein is a short story inside a marvelous collection of short stories called, The Wind from the Sun.  it is about The planetary conversation:

And when I wrote a short story called “Dial F for Frankenstein” in 1962, I had no idea that it would one day inspire British scientist Tim Berners-Lee to invent the World Wide Web (in 1990). The story had a scenario where all the telephones in the world were connected to each other --with results that now seem obvious in hindsight.

The title is itself paying hommage to the great Hitchcock’s movie, Dial M for Murder. Clarke’s story is about the birth of a new collective conscience, but also about the end of the previous one.

I couldn’t think of a better way to pay hommage to the Internet as a whole and to the way, paraphrasing the way Clarke ends his story: For software monopolies, the telephone bell had tolled. Software freedom is gaining a lot with [http://code.google.com/android/ android release]. I updated some information on my first post on [http://memojo.com/~sgala/blog/2007/11/05/A-firewall-against-Microsoft android as a firewall] in a comment. Google situation in the marke will for sure give us new problems with privacy, search and advertising monopolies, but this is a new game and it will be played with new rules.