>Also best and brightest of engineers and AI researchers, shitload of money, culture of ambition and a clear intent to go after AI tech. I haven't heard of any

>Also best and brightest of engineers and AI researchers, shitload of money, culture of ambition and a clear intent to go after AI tech. I haven't heard of any other company like that. IBM ? Who also have been doing it for decades and are far ahead of Google from all indictions. >I'd actually welcome it with open hands. It's about time for some automated diagnosis. My point was that IBM Watson if it made wrong decisions could directly influence health care outcomes i.e. life or death. Nothing Google does is comparable. > Shut down Google and see what happens. Huge sectors of economy depend directly on search ability they provide, not to mention how many people are now using GMail. Google is not the first or last search or email company. We would simply switch to Bing and Yahoo and the world moves on. Or have you never heard of Altavista, Excite, Lycos ? > Without Google we'd be all back to Yellow Pages. Hilarious you mention that since that's where Google gets its worldwide Local/Places search content from. So in fact we are already using Yellow Pages. >If there's one company humanity really grew dependent on, it's Google. Humanity doesn't depend on Google. Get a grip would you.