Imagining the Google Future

Lester67 writes "Business 2 put a bunch of big brains together to give us a peek at Google from 2015 to 2105. "Will it succumb to hubris and flame out like so many of its predecessors? Or will it grow into an omnipresent, omnipotent force--not just on Wall Street or the Web, but in society? We put the question to scientists, consultants, former Google employees, and tech visionaries like Ray Kurzweil and Stephen Wolfram. They responded with well-argued, richly detailed, and sometimes scary visions of a Google future." "

Comments

Comparing Kurzweil to Wolfram?

[Assmasher]

That's an enormous disservice to Wolfram. Yeah, I know, flamebait, but I have never managed to understand why people think Kurzweil knows the first thing about 'A.I.'? Have they ever looked at his work in the field? LOL.

You should mark this off-topic too. (Sorry)

Re:sure ... google will be around in 2015, right

[deacon]

Google stock has been bought on perception.

That perception was that Google was "cool".

Now that Google has turned into a rent boy for the Chinese thugocracy, they are looking a lot less "cool".

Dean's World gets it spot on:

http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1138680220.shtml

Because there is, to me, a difference between doing business under the communist bootheel and putting your own foot in the boot.

People with ethics will divest from Google stock, as they did long ago from Microsoft.