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No, it isn't. At least not for Google. Firstly, Google has Glass, self driving cars, Google Fiber, Loon, and every single one of them has the potential to be t
by jezclaremurugan 13y ago
No, it isn't. At least not for Google.
Firstly, Google has Glass, self driving cars, Google Fiber, Loon, and every single one of them has the potential to be the most significant thing of this century - though these are mentioned in the article, their potential is __highly__ underestimated. Its true some of them will (I prefer might) turn out to be duds, but definitely not all of them.
Secondly, all three companies make a conscious effort to be innovative. Sometimes they err on the side of innovation. And the smartest brains are still proud of working there. And until that changes, one can argue that with the recent deluge of startups that it has, they will continue to dominate.
And talking of AI, I guess almost all the leaders in the field are have a strong relationship with Google. Andrew NG, Sebastin Thrun, Peter Norvig, Ray Kurzweil...
- doseofreality 13y agoYes, and Xerox PARC also had a ton of smart people working on a bunch of exciting futuristic projects at one point as well.
- jsolson 13y ago... and completely failing to capitalize on more or less all of them, because they didn't even try.
- hyperbovine 13y agoYou mean, like, not charging money for anything?
- zArtLaffer 13y agoOr even release them as products. Or actively shutting them down (or attempting to). The mouse, their DRM language (as mal-conceived as it may have been, was pretty clean), Bob Metcalfe's Ethernet and bit-mapped windowing displays all come to mind. IIRC correctly there were some interesting experiments in object-oriented interpretive languages, their runtimes, dev environments and libraries (think about lessons learned from LISP/Smalltalk before Python/Ruby or Perl or even PHP) And there were more. Many more.
- cma 13y agoAs I recall they got something like an 8000% return on investment from all the money that went into PARC from the invention of the laser printer at PARC alone.