> Google is building cars that drive themselves. Microsoft is still analyzing real time data and improving email. What makes you think one is important but not

> Google is building cars that drive themselves. Microsoft is still analyzing real time data and improving email. What makes you think one is important but not the other? Google is building cars that drive themselves but they are also analyzing real time data and subsequently improving their email. It will be stupid for Google to ditch Gmail and direct those engineers to work on cars. >It could be that the author cherry picked examples that were easy for the average reader to understand. Well since NYTimes has a broader demographic than just IT professionals I think the examples do fit perfectly in.