UCLA DIS 19 Fiat Lux "Just Google It" Course Syllabus by Dr. John V. Richardson Jr.

DIS 19, Fiat Lux: "Just Google It":
What It Really Is and When It's Appropriate

(as well as issues of Identity and Privacy)

IX. Google Projects, Trends and the Future of Google

Potential Presentation Topics: What implications do you draw about ping/up or download speeds with Chrome? Searching Google’s Trends, compare "apple pie, orgy" for Pensacola, FL or another comparison; what is the next major trend? How confident are you? Why?

a.     Google and Alphabet--Where new stuff comes from: Google’s X Labs (wikipedia).

b.     Google’s Glass Enterprise Edition aka Project Glass, an augmented reality project.

             1) “How Guys Will Use Google Glass” (video) or

             2) “I’m a Google Glass skeptic and think it’ll be the next Apple Newton” (7 March 2013)

        c. See Trends (last year) at http://www.google.com/trends and Topix’s “Google News” and then

             Zeitgeist (previous years) at http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html or Google Crisis Response

     d. The Chrome OS, the new, faster, streamlined browser (compare ping/down/uploads) from Google and Chromebook

      e. Moving from PCs--going mobile? How does the Google Pixel 2 phone compete with the iPhone?

f. Note the new domain name called .mobi and Google's Goggles (which uses phone pictures to search the web)

g. Another moving away from the computer—watching Google TV? And, again, what are the implications?

h. Google's Philanthropy at Google.org; note Google's spotlight on projects

i. Apple, Google and Microsoft has more than $464B in cash as of July 2017, or Google’s cash per share (MRQ) of $144.13—where would you spend its money?

1) Home automation, Nest; robots including autonomous cars; space elevator; clean energy; new drugs; climate change insurance; cancer?

2) Predicting the Next — “Recorded Future”

Revised: 23 January 2018; Created: 30 August 2006.