Amazing Spider-Man #31 Teaches Us Why We Shouldn't Store Everything On Google Drive (SPOILERS)

Published Wed, 09 Aug 2017 08:00:44 -0500

We've seen the post-Secret Empire future of Spider-Man in Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man. Hanging out, trying to get work, somehow deprived of his mighty Parker Industries, his super Spider-suit and everything that had been built up for the character since Superior Spider-Man, and his use of it to change the world.

There were some wrinkles along the way, using his popular mobile communications technology Web Ware to defeat the deadly clone virus infection at the conclusion of Clone Conspiracy.

He has gained a reputation for being a privateer, using the company to launch an attack on the Norman Osborne-run country of Serkovia.

And now, after all those Web Ware devices were painstakingly repaired, replaced and restored? at a cost of…what was it?

Well, looks like in Amazing Spider-Man #31 by Dan Slott, Stuart Immonen, Wade Von Grawbadger and Marte Gracia, he's going to do it one more time. As Doctor Octopus and Hydra get into the mix for a little data mining…

Everything gets wiped. The lot.

You know, Google won't be around forever. Neither will Facebook. Or even Twitter. Especially if something similar were to happen to them…

Some years ago, when the Google Books project, which aims to digitise all of the world's printed books, was getting under way, the two co-founders of Google were having a meeting with the librarian of one of the universities that had signed up for the plan. At one point in the conversation, the Google boys noticed that their collaborator had suddenly gone rather quiet. One of them asked him what was the matter. "Well", he replied, "I'm wondering what happens to all this stuff when Google no longer exists." Recounting the conversation to me later, he said: "I've never seen two young people looking so stunned: the idea that Google might not exist one day had never crossed their minds."

Dan Slott, there, prophecising the future.

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