[SamAdams76]

And all this time, I thought that Sergey Brin and Larry Page were super geniuses. But actually, outside of their magnificent search engine with the massive cash-printing advertising machine driving it, what do they have really? Google Glass?

I remember the early search engines of the Internet very well. The old Yahoo! directory. AltaVista. HotBot. Lycos. Suddenly they were driven into obscurity by Google, which literally overnight became a verb for "searching the Web."

It's quite plausible that the government realized early on that of all the search engines, Google had the secret sauce by which to quickly capture and organize the information of the world.

If so, not a bad deal for Sergey and Brin who get to skateboard down the corridors of their giant company with an unlimited amount of money to come up with silly stuff like Google Glasses and cars that drive by themselves.

[Paladin2]

Autonomous cars are not silly. They are the culmination of the TV Show The Jetsons.