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Google attempts high-profile "moon shots" to appear innovative.

• adventured 13y ago
  Given the dramatic nature of that statement, can you back it up with more than just a one-liner? You're implying an extreme cascade of things. As one example in that huge cascade of implications, you're suggesting they're spending ... a billion dollars a year to look good and that Sergey Brin has no intention of creating anything ground-breaking with his life & time (while he stares down the looming parkinson's while having $30b in wealth; ie there are other things he could be doing with his time, but his goal is to appear innovative, rather than be innovative).
• robin2 13y ago
  It's possibly worth mentioning that the original moon shots were - in a sense - exercises in publicity. OK, that's putting it a bit crudely, but if you read Kennedy's speech announcing the goal of putting a man on the moon (http://www.space.com/11772-president-kennedy-historic-speech-moon-space.html http://www.space.com/11772-president-kennedy-historic-speech...) he emphasizes how impressive a feat this would be, and he frames the whole enterprise in terms of a battle with the Soviets for hearts and minds of mankind. While I can't say that I'm personally very keen on the whole idea of Google Glass, and I don't know how genuinely innovative these "moon shots" are. But even if they are not particularly innovative at all, I don't think there's anything inherently dubious about Google engaging in publicity for their vision of what the future could be.