The futures of Facebook and Google are embedded in these two images

Re:The futures of Facebook and Google are embedded in these ... by robinsloan on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @05:36PM (#4045033)

Author here: I'm with you. The steady success of the self-driving cars has made me take some of these other projects much, much more seriously.

Maybe it's simply the Thrun factor?

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Re:The futures of Facebook and Google are embedded in these ... by vibrunazo on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @06:10PM (#4045171)

> Maybe it's simply the Thrun factor?

That man's track record of amazing projects is really jaw dropping. Self driving cars, udacity and glass? I want a planet with more people like that in it.

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Re:The futures of Facebook and Google are embedded in these ... by clarky07 on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @11:40PM (#4046231)

We have one. Sadly half of them are working at Facebook trying to figure out how to make people click on more ads. The other half are working in the non research part of google trying to figure out how to make people click on more ads.

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Re:The futures of Facebook and Google are embedded in these ... by eru on Thursday May 31, 2012 @12:07AM (#4046315)

You forgot Goldman Sachs.

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Re:The futures of Facebook and Google are embedded in these ... by btipling on Thursday May 31, 2012 @02:29AM (#4046685)

It's because they have to eat.

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Re:The futures of Facebook and Google are embedded in these ... by mechnik on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @07:57PM (#4045531)

Exciting stuff. Sebastian might be staying up late working on the 'Milk and Cookies' humanoid android release.

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