At Google's Zeitgeist conference, its chairman, Eric E. Schmidt, described a long-term future in which life is managed by robots - and one a little bit closer to reality, in which billions more people can get access to information with new devices and connectivity.
The start-up Art.sy aims to do for visual art what Pandora did for music: become a source of discovery, pleasure and education.
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- Joe Kennedy
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From the printing press to the Google glasses, the earliest lumbering efforts in technology morph over time into streamlined, unnoticed tools of daily life, writes Nick Bilton.
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- Adam Smith
- Allstar Products Group
- Amazon
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- Chris Landano
- compact diaper travel kit
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- Henry Ford
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- Paul Romer
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- QVC
- Ron Reardon
- Soviet Union
- Steve Jobs
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The founders of Instagram, now multimillionaires after Facebook bought their app this week, were helped along the way by the tight web in the Bay Area tech scene.
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On Wednesday, Google gave people 20/20 vision about a secret augmented-reality project called Project Glass. The glasses are the company's first foray into wearable computing.
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- Eyewear
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- Glasses
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- Sebastian Thrun
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- Steve Lee
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