Comments on: Who will challenge Google? http://carokann.fendrich.se/who-will-challenge-google/ Some ideas about IT future and more Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:18:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Who will challenge Apple? http://carokann.fendrich.se/who-will-challenge-google/comment-page-1/#comment-61255 Who will challenge Apple? Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:15:24 +0000 http://carokann.fendrich.se/who-will-challenge-google/#comment-61255 [...] about Google’s Android and Nexus One? See my previous blog post Who will challenge Google? Google is fighting to get into the Mobile Internet market. They fully understand that this market [...] [...] about Google’s Android and Nexus One? See my previous blog post Who will challenge Google? Google is fighting to get into the Mobile Internet market. They fully understand that this market [...]

]]> By: Paige Flores http://carokann.fendrich.se/who-will-challenge-google/comment-page-1/#comment-4829 Paige Flores Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:10:59 +0000 http://carokann.fendrich.se/who-will-challenge-google/#comment-4829 i have tested chrome os both at home and at work, it does not seem to be better than ubuntu.-. i have tested chrome os both at home and at work, it does not seem to be better than ubuntu.-.

]]> By: David Fendrich http://carokann.fendrich.se/who-will-challenge-google/comment-page-1/#comment-1597 David Fendrich Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:38:10 +0000 http://carokann.fendrich.se/who-will-challenge-google/#comment-1597 When Microsoft was dominant, no one thought they could be challenged either. What happened was not that they were challenged, but that they were slowly becoming obsolete as OS began to matter less and web more, just as local apps matter less and web apps more. Google filled this void and became the new place were the smartest programmers wanted to work. The next Google will not challenge them, but conquer a new frontier. I don't know what that frontier will be, since Google are already strong on, for example, the mobile web. Two guesses: 1) An OS for home robotics. When/if humanoid robots invade our homes, it will be beneficial if the software that runs the hardware is standardized across robots. What you want is a universal app store (quite like the one on iPhone) for adding capabilities to your robots. A robotic OS would need both drivers for common hardware and high-level libraries for walking, image processing, speech recognition, etc, so that the apps have a solid common ground to build on. 2) Artificial General Intelligence A company like Ben Goertzel's http://www.novamente.com or Jeff Hakwin's http://www.numenta.com will some day achieve general intelligence. Since general intelligence is... general.. in nature, it will be applicable to an enormous variety of problems, and the one to get there first will probable be huge. When Microsoft was dominant, no one thought they could be challenged either. What happened was not that they were challenged, but that they were slowly becoming obsolete as OS began to matter less and web more, just as local apps matter less and web apps more. Google filled this void and became the new place were the smartest programmers wanted to work.

The next Google will not challenge them, but conquer a new frontier. I don’t know what that frontier will be, since Google are already strong on, for example, the mobile web.

Two guesses:
1) An OS for home robotics.
When/if humanoid robots invade our homes, it will be beneficial if the software that runs the hardware is standardized across robots. What you want is a universal app store (quite like the one on iPhone) for adding capabilities to your robots.

A robotic OS would need both drivers for common hardware and high-level libraries for walking, image processing, speech recognition, etc, so that the apps have a solid common ground to build on.

2) Artificial General Intelligence
A company like Ben Goertzel’s http://www.novamente.com or Jeff Hakwin’s http://www.numenta.com will some day achieve general intelligence. Since general intelligence is… general.. in nature, it will be applicable to an enormous variety of problems, and the one to get there first will probable be huge.

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