Kafka glands and human coral reefs

William Gibson writes splendidly about Google, and there are some fine fearsome media bits.

Google is made of us, a sort of coral reef of human minds and their products. 

That would make a fine successor to Soylent Green.

[Gibson imagines] the prospect of millions of people living out their lives in individual witness protection programs, prisoners of their own youthful folly, appeals to my novelistic Kafka glands. 

I want a Kafka gland!  I think I already have a Cronenberg organ - then again, we all do.

Nor do I take much comfort in the thought that Google itself would have to be trusted never to link one’s sober adulthood to one’s wild youth, which surely the search engine, wielding as yet unimagined tools of transparency, eventually could and would do.

A nice extension to the internet vs childhood meme. ;