Desktop search, is this hot?

I recently saw an article on desktop search and I began to wonder, is this something that's still a hot item? With all the negative press the desktop search got, is it still something that people will want to get involved with? My first inclination would be that many people found that it was too intrusive into private information. I'm sure that many businesses liked it as they could check upon employees very easily. To be able to search on your hard drive should be something that gives you a simple ability to find a file. It shouldn't be an all-encompassing big Brother that is looking over your shoulder. And looking at it from a distance now, I can see that that is the problem. Many people who are involved in technology don't see the big picture. They only see the wonderful things that a technology can do, without regard to the ramifications of it. It's the same thing with people who want to clone animals or even people. I find that kind of technology totally repugnant. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you always should. Now I'm not saying that desktop search is on the same level as a cloning as a moral issue, but it does bring up the question of how much technology is too much. I saw a recent TV news show regarding a grocery store here locally that is allowing you to put your fingerprint as a wallet when used in their store. What you do is put your finger on this pad and it reads it and verifies who you are and becomes kind of a digital wallet. Although this could be convenient, it brings up questions as to what we are doing with technology. I believe we're slowly going down a road that we may regret later, where big Brother is always watching. The Bible talks about in Revelation, the mark of the beast and so on. We seem to be in a headlong rush for technology to do all sorts of neat things for us and some of that is okay, but some of it we need to take a hard look at and decide whether it is good for us are not. I believe it's the same way with desktop search, it outlines in a small way the question of technology and how we should be using it.