At Google X, a Top-Secret Lab Dreaming Up the Future
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#2"It’s a place where your refrigerator could be connected to the Internet, so it could order groceries when they ran low. Your dinner plate could post to a social network what you’re eating. [...] These are just a few of the dreams being chased at Google X, the clandestine lab where Google is tackling a list of 100 shoot-for-the-stars ideas. "
Those are shoot-for-the-stars ideas? I hope those are at the lowest end of the scale. They seem pretty boring to me.
Re: At Google X, a Top-Secret Lab Dreaming Up the Future
#3"It’s a place where your refrigerator could be connected to the Internet, so it could order groceries when they ran low. Your dinner plate could post to a social network what you’re eating. [...] These are just a few of the dreams being chased at Google X, the clandestine lab where Google is tackling a list of 100 shoot-for-the-stars ideas. " Those are shoot-for-the-stars ideas? I hope those are at the lowest end of…
Ironically enough, the refrigerator-ordering-ingredients thing was one of the talking points of Microsoft Home [1] when I worked there eight years ago...
[1] http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/03/microsofts-home-of-the-fu...
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#4I think what Google's best at is not so much innovation as taking existing innovations typically reserved for Dept. of Defense/B2B uses and bringing it to consumers for free.
We already know the DoD already has tech that is years ahead. Google is one of the few companies who can not only afford to bring crazy breakthroughs like Google Street but to do so in a financially profitable or feasible manner.
Re: At Google X, a Top-Secret Lab Dreaming Up the Future
#5"It’s a place where your refrigerator could be connected to the Internet, so it could order groceries when they ran low. Your dinner plate could post to a social network what you’re eating. [...] These are just a few of the dreams being chased at Google X, the clandestine lab where Google is tackling a list of 100 shoot-for-the-stars ideas. " Those are shoot-for-the-stars ideas? I hope those are at the lowest end of…
I suppose the space elevators would be on the higher end of the scale.
Re: At Google X, a Top-Secret Lab Dreaming Up the Future
#6"It’s a place where your refrigerator could be connected to the Internet, so it could order groceries when they ran low. Your dinner plate could post to a social network what you’re eating. [...] These are just a few of the dreams being chased at Google X, the clandestine lab where Google is tackling a list of 100 shoot-for-the-stars ideas. " Those are shoot-for-the-stars ideas? I hope those are at the lowest end of…
I suppose the space elevators would be on the higher end of the scale.
Sometimes high, sometimes low. It's up and down.
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#7this is where Google Labs went when it was "cut"
Re: At Google X, a Top-Secret Lab Dreaming Up the Future
#8I think what Google's best at is not so much innovation as taking existing innovations typically reserved for Dept. of Defense/B2B uses and bringing it to consumers for free. We already know the DoD already has tech that is years ahead. Google is one of the few companies who can not only afford to bring crazy breakthroughs like Google Street but to do so in a financially profitable or feasible manner.
I disagree that dod has the best
tech already in "top secret". The
best tech is often dod sponsored,
but is made public by the university
researchers who usually create it.
And it's not costly, you can go read
it and use it, often the stuff is
released as open source software
on the researchers' website.
Re: At Google X, a Top-Secret Lab Dreaming Up the Future
#9"It’s a place where your refrigerator could be connected to the Internet, so it could order groceries when they ran low. Your dinner plate could post to a social network what you’re eating. [...] These are just a few of the dreams being chased at Google X, the clandestine lab where Google is tackling a list of 100 shoot-for-the-stars ideas. " Those are shoot-for-the-stars ideas? I hope those are at the lowest end of…
Intelligent refrigerators based on
computer vision (and not rfid) is
actually a shoot for the stars kind
of idea. It would also revolutionize
retailers, distributors, and manufacturers.
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#10There have been times in my life where I've thought that I've had a "genius" idea and every cell in my body has said "Don't tell anyone. Hoard it. Cultivate it. And you'll be a revolutionary!"
And then I end up sharing. And there never ceases to be one or two or four perspectives shared that I never thought of before. And in the end, I think the idea flourishes because I was open and shared and iterated and shared those iterations.
Do these "top secret" labs ever make the big cognitive leaps that we hope for?