Elevators in space, google had recently confirmed that it was working on the project for science, this way they could do experiments that could be tried in space. The thing is about working on this type of large scale is that they would have to develop a material to be able to with stand the amount of material that would be place into the building of the space elevator. Currently this project has been placed on the back burner because of the material they would need. One of the things they would have to have is the material that would be stronger by 100 times than the current steel. The only material that is even close to what is needed is carbon nanotubes.
The thing is about nanotubes is that we ca make it very well but we haven’t been able to make it in a high quality manner that is over a meter long and what is needed for the project is over hundred miles of the tubing. It is said that by 2025 the technology will be there to be able to create the material to be able to hold the structure for the space elevator, while google still is keeping this as part of their project, the outcome is quite a spectacular idea to bring. There are many thing to consider with this technology. The idea is that in the next five to ten years we will be able to have the technology to perfect the carbon nanotube and by the time they are to get the construction under way it will take another ten to fifteen years after that to be able to work on a structure like this.
To support this idea google has to come up with a way even after they have figured out the amount of the carbon nanotube it would need, it would have to make sure that the structure was able to hold the amount of weight that it would have to carry up and down. There is a ration it would have to work with and the specific strength. The reality of the program is that there is clearly a fault with the nanotubes. Now that simply we don’t have the material to build enough strength to manage the weight for it there is another problem that you run into and that is construction for it. Now think it does have to be built in stages for delivery but as of right now we do not have anything that can deliver this type of material to build to furthest reaches of the heavens. The big thing to take away from this with the advancement in the technology that google is proceeding with is that it may take a year for advancement to be able to figure out the complexity of making the material needed to build such a structure but then again it could take more than that before it catches up. The idea is still there but will it work we all will have to wait and see if this idea will ever come to a completion. http://www.fastcolabs.com/3029843/what-is-up-with-googles-space-elevator-project http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/180682-google-x-admits-its-working-on-a-space-elevator-teleportation-hoverboards
New Drugs for google research has a big thing there is so many things that google is trying to do in research in, and one of the drugs has many benefits and has some great deals of worries to come along with it. This drug that is being described has a lot of great things to think about and that is the cure of age. The drug is supposed to be able to fight the disease that keeps us from growing old, google has partnered with a company named Abbvie and each has come up with $250 million in research and has an additional option to fund $500 million dollars to aid in the research and building a facility in San Francisco, the idea is to create in stages the ability to discover new drugs and go through some development through stages to help with anti-aging and to prevent the death. Now there is plenty benefit from prolonging the death of humanity especially when you think about the people that are need are of great minds and having them around for development the projects that take time to build. Now when you think of the down side to this and think who would be able to use this special drug? Would this only be exclusive to the rich people that could afford such a thing? Then there is the problem that we all come to think, what about the population growing and growing and no one that would die because of age? There are so many complications that this would bring if this were even possible and to think that so much funding is being committed to a project like this, that there could be an actual possibility that this could happen. The next drug is that is being considered another great investment that google is trying to do is the research in antibody development, now the object of the antibody is to attack the disease by having the antibody reprogram the disease to fight itself or to even repair what it has destroyed. This sounds almost like a computer program trying to clean the hard drive of a virus. The company that google is investing its resources in and helping to advance research in is Adimab which was a leader in antibody discoveries, google has been driving to help with its tech advancement to help process the research which would traditionally take six to 18 months and take it down to six weeks of development. Now there is plenty of benefit with this because it could lead to a lot of cures such as the big one cancer, but with new research there is always the discovery of the bad antibodies that could be turned in to biological warfare if misused in the wrong way. So when you think of the possibility of cures that could be made but you also have to think of what else was made that could be harmful to humanity, with every great discovery there is something else that is lurking to be created. http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/3/6102377/google-calico-cure-death-1-5-billion-research-abbvie http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2010/02/03/google-pours-incredible-computing-power-into-antibody-drug-discovery-with-adimab/
Smart Thermostats, has been an interesting move for google to make as it took over a company that was known for creating fire alarms and thermostats which is Nest. Now the idea is that the smart thermostat would be able to monitor the temperature of the house based on the habits of the people of the house that live there. The deal that google made to the company is an astronomical number $3.2 billion dollars to proceed in the market. While this is part of a big picture that google is trying to create, this alone is having an impact already. The features that the smart thermostat can do and can be controlled by Wi-Fi while away from home, just think if your home is under minimal use while your away and just before you get the is starts to adjust to the temperature that would best suit for the comfort of one’s own preference. As google makes this a priority to do, it also has another reason why it has invested in the market.
The engineers that created the smart thermostat would be help with Google’s ability to expand and get more people under their belt which would help further research. Smart thermostat has plenty of upside to it which alone that it can be helpful to keep the cost of the bill down for energy when it is not needed but it also can help keep a memory of track the temperature of anything that needs to be heated around the house. This is just a small portion of its investment that would be part of a larger scale in the development for the home environment.
Now while this the first step of Google entering into a person’s home, you can also wonder what will be the outcome of how much control that they will have and be able to monitor what is happening around the house. Like many things you can find faults with this type of technology and what would happen if this were to have a hiccup and not be able to turn off or turn on what would be the remedy to fix such a situation. If the smart thermostat goes haywire and begins to heat the house to the point of being unbearable, how would one take care of such a thing? While google is trying to get things in order and while this is something that can be soon seen in every house hold more and more people will have to have a technical background to understand such a thermostat to be able to trouble shoot such a product. While the jobs that can be created by having in the home it will affect many in the field that are already having a hard time getting work in this field. When thinking of the next generation in technology it can only get better and with the start of a new and better change for the future. Time is only so long before it catches up to the technology that google is creating at a fast pace. http://www.pcworld.com/article/2087520/why-google-paid-32-billion-for-thermostat-startup-nest.html Predicting the Future is something that everyone has always wanted to figure out, so what is the big thing with knowing what the future is? There is so many benefits to being able to predict the future to list them all could take forever so we will start with what google has started to work on. Google has been able to predict trends in travel and in home buying market. How do they do this? So far by using the search engines that they have to be able to isolate suggestive trends that are in place, this is a similar ability that is featured in twitter and which google has thought about buying twitter to add as part of their ever growing network. The Google search engine being used with the predictive trends has yielded results helping forecast the sales of vehicles with an astounding result. Where does this take goggle to and where does it want to take their technology to? The answer can be a multitude of areas and some of those could be trying to predict when disasters could happen and understanding Mother Nature and the way it causes its own natural disasters. The advancement in this technology can only get better the goal for google is to eventually predict much more than just business trends and travel, it is trying to predict much more on human capabilities. Could this also help predict wars and future attacks just like the one that happened in New York? The software for google is trying to advance itself to a more world base feature to help with the smallest of prediction techniques to a large scale prediction. Where can this go and what could be the down fall of this type of prediction method? The fault lies in the data that is collected, which means it still has to sort through all the information that could lead it in the wrong way. How can that affect prediction, is that if there where so many people searching for similar stories about a natural disaster it could take that information in turn say there is an upcoming natural disaster in place and put people in fear of an upcoming event. There was a similar thing that was featured such as the Mayan calendar that was set to expire on a certain day and it was also predicted that the world would come to an end and also others thought that the was something else that would happen. While this technology is only part of the puzzle to figuring out the future, google is striving to get better and better to figure out what mankind has always wanted to know. When this technology gets to the point to where it can predict what will happen to an individual, this could be a scary thing because if it were to actually predict one’s own future and determine what was to happen. Can it get there and predict what will happen in the future? To a certain extent it can do that now but just ask yourself what if you could find out what the future holds by just asking the question, would you want to know what is to happen to you? http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidleinweber/2013/04/26/big-data-gets-bigger-now-google-trends-can-predict-the-market/ Home Automation, is googles pride and joy when it comes to technology, this is what they want to do for the future and which is to make everything in the house that is electronic be able to communicate to each other and be able to do things on their own providing comfort at your own house. Google started this feature by buying Nest which was the first step in getting the ability and technology that Nest provided with fire alarm and smart thermostat but this only a small portion to what they want to create the Home automation is part of a large network such as connecting to fridge, toaster, television, security system and much more. How can this really help people when a house is automated? While this could help people that are disabled to provide features that can help them do things to be done just by pressing a button and running off an Android google platform which is compatible to anything that is window based, which would be able to add on to anything that is Android based, such as a tablet or even a phone.
This could really change things around the home if an emergency where to happen and if someone was to be in danger such as a theft or even if the person had a heart attack the network would be notified to send a message to emergency services to come to the home and help that person, in a faster response time. This could also be set in a memory feature where it remembers what each person in the house hold on its choice of use, such as if someone decides to use the television for example a child wakes up in the morning and each morning the child has a preference to watch a certain channel it could automatically come on in the morning to the specific time and set itself to display the show, also it can be place a restriction on what is shown for privacy on what type of shows can be shown for age level appropriate.
Now when you think of the issue with this type of home automation there is a couple things that could happen here and one of the biggest things that can be seen is privacy of the home, with everything being home automated the system does keep track of everything you do and learn from you. Where else is that information going to? Is that information being sent back to google to better understand the household so they can provide more information to help them? Since this is a Wi-Fi system and nothing is being direct connected, there is an issue that you can find in this set up and that is you are open to being hacked by someone. This could be the biggest problem if it were to happen especially if your security is turned off and are being home invaded by someone. Even with the many changes that are brought to the home this could still be a great thing to the home, with a very secure network for the home automation this could be very useful.
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