A decade or two ago, sure. I saw Google as a spiritual successor to Bell Labs, even. Today that seems to have been highly neutered. It's a giant corp with an

A decade or two ago, sure. I saw Google as a spiritual successor to Bell Labs, even. Today that seems to have been highly neutered. It's a giant corp with an old money printing machine and not a lot of future direction, IMO. I'm not sure it's fair to blame them, I think it's just the nature of companies growing too large.