Everyone has been focusing on the how easy/difficult it would be to reverse this hypothetical algorithm that would determine based on your use of a webpage if you're human or not... ...I see a more fundamental problem. This is on the internet, so they have basically 3 options on how to implement this.
1) server side. The only variable you could track is time between page requests. Don't see how that could possibly be enough information
2) Client side JS. Simple, just modify the JS to return &isHuman=true
3) Client side JS acting as a keylogger, sending back for server side verification. Harder to defeat, but you'll lose my business, the business of all of my friends, and have a horde of angry nerds picket your offices.

Also, this doesn't take into account any edge cases, for example if I've already been to your site, surf straight to /contact.html and paste in a email I previously wrote in Word(err, excuse me, OOo)

About the same way slashdot does.

If you're that worried about how you're going to get porn when the terrorists cut all the fiber to your city, you might want to watch this video. These gentlemen have done some amazing research on the subject.

The only truly secure computer is one that has been powered off, disconnected from any and all networks, encased in a 1 inch thick lead box, then buried under 25 feet of concrete inside a guarded military compound.

While an anti-gravity pod fulled by love and gravy would be nice, I'll be buying the model that's powered by animosity and trans-fats. Sure, it's not as nice to look at, but you can refuel in many more locations.

Sup dawg, we heard you liked legacy applications so we put an emulator in your visualization so you can compute while u compute!

Personally, I prefer things like a contacts list and a GUI in my email client. Gmail is certainly the fastest GUI client when you have folders(labels) with >10,000 messages in them (or just many gigs of email in general)

Also, nothing else compares to their spam filter (or at least, nothing did in ~early 2005 when I switched to Gmail, and it's only gotten better.) The only false positives it's ever flagged were a couple spammy looking "click here to confirm your account" type messages.

Missing option: I use a mac, you insensitive clod!

There is a high level format like the one you speak of. COLLADA another open standard managed by the Khronos group. Many 3D authoring applications and game engines support this format, and I would not be at all surprised if they chose COLLADA as the format for transferring geometry in this new 3D web standard.

I guess if Fiber-to-the-Home isn't fast enough, you've got to try Fiber-to-the-Brain.

Stream porn straight to your visual cortex. Backup your memories with Google Hippocampus Beta. I guess mobility might be a bit of a problem, though. I wonder if it comes with one of those cool head jars?

Several people in this thread have suggested that you don't need to be concerned about security because you can just encrypt your files.

However, I believe the TOS for such a GDrive service might prohibit storing encrypted files with the service for two main reasons
1. Encrypted data doesn't compress well. If google is giving away hard drive space for free, they're going to want to be as efficient about this as possible. Most people will be storing text files, photos or other data that's trivial to compress further - and I would imagine most Gmail and Gdrive users will use less than half the space given to them.
2. You can't do data mining on encrypted data. This is why you want to encrypt your data, and the main reason they won't want you to. Google is in the business of knowing everything (and then using that knowledge to sell narrowly target ads) This is the reason they're willing to give out free space.

actually, a book only contains ink and paper. It requires an operator with years of experience "reading" books to convert that ink and paper into content like words, a story or a poem.

You can't bundle software with accessories (hardware or software for another platform).

I'd be pretty pissed if I bought this fancy iPhone balistics calculator clip thing, got it home and found I had to pay ANOTHER $12 to get the software for it.

I'm sure we'll see more and more accessories like this - A rifle can't be the only thing that's more useful if you clip a specialized calculator or some data entry on it. And while the iPhone/iPod touch probably isn't even the best off the shelf device to use for this type of application, the iPhone still the cool gadget and will get you headlines if you do something weird like this with it.

How does a company that has developed, manufactured, marketed and sold an actual product benefit when years later comes around and says "Nope, you can't keep selling that until you license your idea from us."

Patents have their uses. An invention a person or company spends time and money researching should be protected to a degree. IFF it is original and non obvious - especially if there is an actual product you're selling incorporating this patent.

However, filing a patent for every damn thing you can think of with "on the internet" or "on a mobile phone" tacked on the end IS an abuse of the system.

Besides the usual penis pills and pre-approved credit cards, what type of ads would you target at the president? He doesn't have much leisure time - so pretty much any ad you or I might see is out.

Lobbyists? Military contractors?

I wonder what the Blackwater PR department is like....

Google suggests that posting your personal information on the internet, even across multiple sites can make you susceptible to data mining.
Ok. No argument there.

To remedy this, they propose to mine your data, presumably archive it for future reference, and finally politely report back how successful they were?

Hmm...They've definitely identified a problem.