Technology|A High-Stakes Bet: Turning Google Assistant Into a 'Star Trek' Computer

Technology|A High-Stakes Bet: Turning Google Assistant Into a ‘Star Trek’ Computer

September 28, 2016Farhad ManjooSTATE OF THE ARTGoogle is one of the most valuable companies in the world, but its future, like that of all tech giants, is clouded by a looming threat. The search company makes virtually all of its money from ads placed on the World Wide Web. But what happens to the cash machine if web search eventually becomes outmoded?That worry isn’t far-fetched. More of the world’s computing time keeps shifting to smartphones, where apps have supplanted the web. And internet-connected devices that may dominate the next era in tech — smartwatches, home-assistant devices like Amazon’s Echo, or virtual reality machines like Oculus Rift — are likely to be free of the web, and may even lack screens.But if Google is worried, it isn’t showing it. The company…


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