Every year Larry Page and Sergey Brin write a founder’s letter to update shareholders about what’s going on.
This year Larry let new Google CEO, Sundar Pichai do most of the talking. While Google is obviously a player in the domain space there was not one word about domains.
Sundar did speak about something that long term could affect domains. The move to a world of virtual reality and artificial intelligence.
From the letter:
Powerful computing platforms Just a decade ago, computing was still synonymous with big computers that sat on our desks. Then, over just a few years, the keys to powerful computing—processors and sensors—became so small and cheap that they allowed for the proliferation of supercomputers that fit into our pockets: mobile phones. Android has helped drive this scale: it has more than 1.4 billion 30-day-active devices—and growing. Today’s proliferation of “screens” goes well beyond phones, desktops, and tablets. Already, there are exciting developments as screens extend to your car, like Android Auto, or your wrist, like Android Wear. Virtual reality is also showing incredible promise—Google Cardboard has introduced more than 5 million people to the incredible, immersive and educational possibilities of VR. Looking to the future, the next big step will be for the very concept of the “device” to fade away. Over time, the computer itself—whatever its form factor—will be an intelligent assistant helping you through your day. We will move from mobile first to an AI first world.
Interesting.
I can see a lot of practical or cool uses for VR, like classrooms/learning/some entertainment etc but over all a “world” I wouldn’t want to live in.
Think of the sadness involved when people want to create virtual worlds to escape the real one. Its bad enough we miss out on moments in life due to cellphone cameras or interruptions, now we can just take virtual family vacations and my work can hover around my head all day, great!
Lets hope motion sickness is a mass trend when this stuff becomes available and turns out to be a fad for the most part.
No way it will be real. Hopefully you have a great family, a lot of people don’t. Why not have a world you create instead of this miserable world created by a few rich pricks ?
@VR, I do for the most part, my family is my family and no one’s is perfect. Remember rich does not equal happy and if you are looking for happy then you need to be the change, sitting around in a VR world will ultimately fail at filing the real void.
I registered aifirstworld (com) and firstworldai (com). Maybe there’s a development deal out there!
Nah, these are shit names. Sorry. The only upside to posting this is increasing your PR with your website link.
Well done! I have AIcoverage.com & AIadvisory.com so maybe a great demand for these domains soon?
Cool story Raymond thanks for something not ngtld or udrp related. #yawn
Amen!! Thank you
Amen Amen
VR is where it’s at, domaining will be done, why do you think the guy that owns this blog sold out ? Quit dropcatching and learn toi code.
@VR,
Keep in mind, Google just recently entered the domain industry as a public-facing registrar and the registry behind a number of nTLDs. Although Google’s inexperience in this area is telling to the point of absurdity, the fact remains that the company decided this is a good time for them to INCREASE their reliance on domain names.
Clearly Google doesn’t see the growth of AI and VR as incompatible with their own larger commitments to domain names. Why should we?
its all crap. domains will never go away atleast the. com is here to stay, if .com disappear google will be gone too
The VR fan boys are almost as bad as the ngtld guys.
Yes, our world will become more ubiquitous…what we think our sleek iphones and droids are now will be clunky relics of the past… and AI will pay a big part in that. I experienced VR at a theme park back in ’97. VR has come a long way but it isn’t new and it won’t “rule” or be the next big thing.
Lots of people chasing shinny objects, instead of following trends (the correct way, ie: its NOT always about following the money), and looking at history.
Keep your head on a swivel 😉