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layout: post
title: "Litwak: Google is the new Bell Labs"
date: 2013-12-16 23:08:19 -0500
external-url: http://davidlitwak.com/google-acts-how-a-tech-behemoth-should
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I love this post by David Litwak, highlighting the forward-thinking nature of
this tech behemoth and all the good it is doing with its incredibly lucrative
AdWords service. This pretty much sums it up:

> Google is acting in the same spirit as Alexander Bell, using their incredibly
> lucrative money-maker (Google Adwords) to finance moonshots and ambitious side
> projects. Both GMail and Google Maps are great examples, and they are ahead of
> the game with a truly integrated travel search engine in Google Travel (2-3
> years in my estimate), Google Glass/wearable computing (at least 5 years
> before its time), autonomous cars (maybe 10 years) and household/military
> robotics (15 years?).

Litwak is right: Google (especially their Google X division) is pioneering the
future of tech, rarely allowing the worries of marketability or profitability to
hinder their advancements.

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layout: post
title: "Litwak: Google is the new Bell Labs"
date: 2013-12-16 23:08:19 -0500
external-url: https://web.archive.org/web/20171121065427/https://davidlitwak.com/2013/12/13/google-acts-how-a-tech-behemoth-should/
---

I love this post by David Litwak, highlighting the forward-thinking nature of
this tech behemoth and all the good it is doing with its incredibly lucrative
AdWords service. This pretty much sums it up:

> Google is acting in the same spirit as Alexander Bell, using their incredibly
> lucrative money-maker (Google Adwords) to finance moonshots and ambitious side
> projects. Both GMail and Google Maps are great examples, and they are ahead of
> the game with a truly integrated travel search engine in Google Travel (2-3
> years in my estimate), Google Glass/wearable computing (at least 5 years
> before its time), autonomous cars (maybe 10 years) and household/military
> robotics (15 years?).

Litwak is right: Google (especially their Google X division) is pioneering the
future of tech, rarely allowing the worries of marketability or profitability to
hinder their advancements.

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