Google's Schmidt: Computers Enhancing Humanity

Computing power is rapidly enhancing our ability to filter and direct relevant information to users according to Google's Schmidt.

Search traffic tripled through the first half of 2010 and more information is created every two days than was ever created up until 2003.

Google is soon to release Google Goggles that will interact with Android & use Smart phones as sensors to pass information back up to the cloud.

It is highly unlikely that with these changes in the volume of information & our interaction with that information that our world will not be radically changed in a very short period of time.


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Bringing Efficiency to the Infrastructure

IN the mid-1990s, the Internet took off because its technological time had come. Years of steady progress in developing more powerful and less expensive computers, Web software and faster communications links finally came together.

A similar pattern is emerging today, experts say, for what is being called smart infrastructure — more efficient and environmentally friendlier systems for managing, among other things, commuter traffic, food distribution, electric grids and waterways. This time, the crucial technological ingredients include low-cost sensors and clever software for analytics and visualization, as well as computing firepower.

Wireless sensors can now collect and transmit information from almost any object — for instance, roads, food crates, utility lines and water pipes. And the improved software helps interpret the huge flow of information, so raw data becomes useful knowledge to monitor and optimize transport and other complex systems. The efficiency payoff, experts say, should translate into big reductions in energy used, greenhouse gases emitted and natural resources consumed. Read on


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