Vint Cerf Muses About Google Role, Broadband

Not all of what Vint Cerf is saying these days might be implemented in Google, but it is a good pointer nonetheless. In a speech today, he said he’ll act as a “bumblebee,” transporting ideas among the company’s worldwide laboratories.

He sees transmission of “spacely” information–that is, the capability to locate, say, the nearest hospital or ATM from mobile devices–as a critically important venture…He also plans to ask Google engineers whether they’ve investigated the possibility of a voice-enabled search, which he says could be useful “in places in the world where people aren’t literate but can speak.”

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