What Google Could Focus On Next

Research Problems

• Cracking Artificial Intelligence with great internal teams & external collaboration - new products, increasingly better existing products - essentially changes the world. 
• It was search, rules, first order logic, probability and other representations. Now, it’s all about learning from massive datasets. Revolutions are coming! Ultimate search engine!
• Intelligent Personal Agent
• Eric Schmidt rightly believes that recommendation might get bigger than search. If your computer knows what you want, then why bother typing words?
• Google Now
• Solving big problems (or as Google calls them "moon shots") with (problem focused collaborative research) great internal teams & external collaboration / massive collaboration / open innovation
• Solve for X, Google X
• Application of Big Data: understanding complex systems better: finding answers to age old questions: Sociology, Behavioral Science, Political Science, Economics & Business
• Exploration of new computing architectures - continuation of Moore’s law: exponential increase in processing power - computational power for data processing, intelligence.
• Parallel computing architectures (e.g., GPUs); Molecular computing; Optical Computing; Quantum computing; Cognitive computing / Neuromorphic computing. 
• Brain-computer Interfacing
• Google in our brain!
• Integrating data from all the sources => Knowledge Mining, New Applications

People focused Social Problems

• Education & Learning platform
• Google Play for Education, ChromeBook. Singularity University. Technology and Education are great equalizers.
• Platforms that empower people - the enormous potential in each and everyone of us is materialized
• Wikinomics platform 
• Global collaboration
• Android, Play, Chrome
• Products that take on social problems and scale using profit to reach millions
• Funding / Growing / Working with entrepreneurs to solve problems people face.
• Google Ventures. Incubator. 
• Solving local, social and global problems (clean water, cheap energy etc.) utilizing massive collaboration and exponential technologies
• Google.org. Google Ideas. For-profit.

Healthcare & Biomedicine

• Computational Biology / Bioinformatics, Systems Biology, Biology <> Engineering
• Healthcare Informatics
• Lifespan extension; Curing Diseases; Preventive Medicine; Personalized Medicine
• Calico

Physical Digital Integration

• Robotics, Automation 
• Car 2.0 
• Electric / hybrid Car? App Market Integration; Automation; Advanced Collision avoidance system 
• Ultimate goal: Self Driving Car, Intelligent Transportation System 
• Manufacturing
• Motorola
• Computational Materials Design
• Internet of things; Smart cities; Smart Home; Sensor Web; Big data
• Around Android, Chrome? Google Glass, Motorola, Nest.
• Physical Digital Experience Design

Google bought 8 robotics companies in past 6 months.


Google started with Search; currently focusing more on platforms and services. Lately, excited about the prospects about Physical Digital Integration?

(Developers < Google Platforms, Services > Users, Apps).
Next: Developers developing tools, components < A better App Inventor platform for Chrome, Android> Users developing apps?

Platforms:

• Android 
• Google Play (Streaming services?) 
• Chrome
• Google App Engine
• Google+
• Google TV
• (New) Google glass, Motorola, ChromeOS, ChromeBook

Services:

• Maps
• GMail
• Youtube
• Google Books

Followups

• The new GE: Google, everywhere
• Machine learning: Don’t be evil, genius