Bea & I picked up two of my teenage nephews from the airport yesterday for an annual trip out to the west coast from Kentucky, or someplace thereabouts. Then we proceeded up to the Google complex right near the Shoreline Amphitheater where we met Bea’s niece, a Stanford grad and now very happy employee of Google.
I think the experience was a bit lost on the boys. Google is something that gives them search results, but they had no clue as to the disruption it has caused and is causing in the general webosphere; nor what some of its plans are, such as it’s book project and 4th generation wireless, i.e., wide-area high-speed networks open to all appliances and applications. YouTube. The list goes on. Google has really become somewhat of an ubiquitous value for many. They’re behind so many things, now, that you don’t notice them so much anymore. But if they were suddenly gone?
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