Something X

We all know google right :-)

I remember when I knew google, might be around 7-8 years from now, I knew it not in a good way. I kind of heard it that its a company by young group of people which might not exist for long as people would expect to. But as years passed we are google all the way. Its been so part of our life that we can’t even imagine life without it. How can search engine make money out of it? It did and did in a grand style.

Recently I have been reading about Google X, a kind of secretive lab for moonshot thinking, saw interview of Astro Teller captain of Google X and its like really good. Imagine someone comes to you and ask you about if you can increase the maximum speed of a might be a F1 car from 400 kmph to 500 kmph, so what would you do?? you will start to know about the engine and start tweaking the bottlenecks and you will somehow achieve it or even achieve it like 550kmph and might be the reason of applaud but what if anyone or no-one comes and ask you if you can increase the speed to like crazy 1500kmph or even more?? Now you are thinking on the X's way. Why ?? coz you now cannot tweak that system, you have to think beyond iteration and think beyond sky (coz sky is limit) now you will have to work on small details and rebuild those details to art, shattering all those laws of defining something. Even getting this thing known made me feel wow. How could possibly someone think these things ?? So its Google X way of doing things. Everything they do like the Google Glass brings huge possibilities to us, imagine reading menus of restaurant with google glass of language that you don't know, even knowing the history or price tag of any product you are seeing, even heath related concern with that particular object. So the possibility is widening up with technology and its evolution. So Google has a research division but how is Google X different?? its not something that is in the name, its on the approach that they take. So basically what a research is? its like digging into something that no-one knows till making it like nothing but google X is like digging into everything if they can get something for everyone so the approach is one liner but different, different enough to make it something like X. They like to create non-iterative things, once done is done, the leftover is like for the weaker ones :-). Some defines X like roman X i.e. 10 it does work 10 years ahead, some says its like they do 10 folds of a particular thing but whatever it may be, its bringing foundational change for tomorrow. I remember google buying Boston Dynamics and when I saw that video there is noway that you will say its made, it seems like a bull running in iron clad armour, its real and its now Google. 

To add to X, I am so much excited to about Oculus VR being acquired by Facebook. I have read somewhere that it might be the platform for Facebook and I wish it is. I am highly optimistic about Oculus being the platform coz when we see the big companies like Microsoft its platform is Windows OS, Google's Android, Apple's OS X but what about Facebook?? It has no platform, instead it depends on android or window or OS X or .... but what if it could have something that you can interact differently that you normally do so is it Oculus VR?? its certainly has huge possibility but if its Facebook platform that surely its good.

So there are so much of things that are happening out there, somewhere so this rejunevates life and help me try to do things that I usually don't, so its like staying informed but still staying foolish.