Quotes to Note: Google and Its Global Vision
April 5, 2015
I read “Google Calls for Global Connectivity,” an article written by Sundar Pichai, who is Google’s senior vice president. I don’t have global thoughts, but Google does. Here are four which Mr. Pichai holds dear. I quite like the one which suggests that one no longer has to remember. My reaction was, “Do I need to remember that Google sells ads?” The answer may be, “Nah, you don’t need to remember that or our tracking, our need for mobile revenue growth, or our science club projects.” I am down with that. I don’t remember anything, which seems to be the subtext of the write up. Here are four quotes from the write up:
Remembering:
Plenty of children in developed countries now have smartphones by age 12 ? or even earlier.
These youngsters no longer have to worry about memorizing phone numbers ? in fact they have a world of information in their pockets.
Forget the computer:
Smartphones today are the cheapest, easiest way to bring the web to people who until now could only dream of it.
Google’s solar aircraft:
…A a project in the early stages, called Titan, would use a new type of super lightweight solar-powered plane capable of hovering in one area of the stratosphere.
Titan may be able to supplement existing services with extra bandwidth, or provide access in an area that is suddenly offline, such as after an earthquake or other disaster.
The Loon balloons:
Loon, in which stratospheric balloons beam Internet signals to the ground below, in regions such as mountainous areas that cannot be reached by regular infrastructure.
Recently we announced that our balloons had traveled across more than 15 million kilometers of sky. Some have stayed up nearly 200 days ? that is more than six months, well over the three months we had hoped for.
Oh, I just remembered. Ad revenue. And there is no need to search. Google’s approach is to predict what the user wants. Life is easy the Google way.
Stephen E Arnold, April 5, 2015
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