Google, the company that outgrew itself, did something equivalent of being reborn, but in the no-living sense of the word. It spun off its old self, and began anew. Google, now the former, will be a company of its own run by a new talented CEO. The new, has spun off into the parent company and is known as Alphabet Inc..
This new mega-parent-company will have a number of subsidiaries beneath it, not withstanding Google, Google X, Google Fiber, Google Ventures, Google Capital, Calico, Nest Labs, along future others. Its new purpose will be to be all encamping, to cover all aspects of interactions. I already highlighted this in one of my former blog entries whereby I introduced a Google alphabet in pictorial form where each letter was the logo of a Google Brand. But its choice in domain even more clearly spells it out abc.xyz, pun intended. In this domain name choice, they show they cover beginning to end, a-to-z, alpha to omega.
I believe one of the key pieces to this would be the further development of artificial intelligence (AI). This area has shown great potential, through the most recent examples of where different artificial speech engines were communicating with each other in a quite comical manner. Another very exciting example of where an artificial intelligence machine was able to determine self-awareness, granted it was in comparison to other AIs and not to human beings.
I look forward to seeing what the future holds, in a rightfully skeptical manner. I’m sure in any event, it will be an exciting time.
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