Charlie Rose

winter  10/03/2010 12:04 AM Report

That any search engine provider can monitor and document every search I do and sell it to the highest bidder ...how

is that NOT illegal wire tapping? I'm sure there's an "explanation" probably something to do with lobbyists

and their Freedom of Speech.

winter  10/03/2010 12:00 AM Report

That any search engine provider can monitor and document every search I do and sell it to the highest bidder ...how

is that NOT illegal wire tapping? I'm sure there's an "explanation" probably something to do with lobbyists

and their Freedom of Speech.

JohnGelles  09/29/2010 06:42 AM Report

Eric Schmidt is an adviser to the President. Will he please advise our nation that the only DEFICIT we need to fear is the DEFICIT IN INTELLIGENCE to enable requisite capital to be eased into the system's capital structure (and liquidity design) to rapidly deploy the jobs, green and even temporarily dirty, to create the confidence we need in human political institutions to prevent a serious backslide into the swamp we escaped when we nearly lost our footing and fell off the cliff in 2008 -- (like the one that just killed James Heselden, owner of Segway Company, who died in an accident on his own Segway two wheel lawnmower-like scooter.)

Segway and its multiplicity of sensors and gyros may seem like proof that this is the age of the tricycle (not of the sci fi pogo stick.) Don't you believe it. Wooden hulls and cloth sails were replaced by steel and steam in a matter of metaphoric hours. Schmidt, Bernanke and the President have a job to do. And so have Palin and the Bobbsey Twins, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner -- these three represent an invitation to do an about-face and return to a nightmare that should never have happened. Five other names to join Schmidt as we contemplate our choices. Chose wisely. You nation's future is hostage to your thought.

JohnGelles  09/29/2010 05:56 AM Report

"What is interesting about this architecture that all of us are

building is it is really not just the phone, it is also the phone connected

to the network, which is connected to all the computers. So an example,

when we do voice translations, a typical demo we’ll do is we’ll do German

to English, English to German. You talk into your phone; it digitizes the

voice; it sends it to a thousand computers that are in some other country,

most likely; converts them to text; translates the text into the other

language, and then puts it through a speech synthesizer so you hear it back

in the other language. That is to me, this is science fiction."

..... So says Eric Schmidt -- for all the successful entrepreneurial geeks whose visions beckon our era to use Artificial Intelligence, backed by billions of transistors on the head of a pin, to solve simple problems -- we still leave to chance and a rules of thumb -- because the intelligence we need to master market operations is out of reach.

The problems of price, requisite sustainable capital formation and deployment, jobs, income, savings, consumption, political stability, etc., must be corralled at superpower level (and beneath it) to make certain that we do not seek nuclear war as a means for settling imaginary disputes between Kaisers and their cousins.

I see this as beginning with an Economic Security Agency (ESA), the grandchild of the NSA, with the computational power and information storage and architectural structures and capacity to meet silly deficits in monetized demand and serious natural disasters head on. I see this agency as having empowered our democratic parliaments to move away from earmarks and jail bait toward planning that was never possible.

Many in the audience will cry foul, some will cry black, brown or red, but Eric and I will cry science fiction! Bring it on.

REMant  09/28/2010 11:38 AM Report

My view of Google isn't exactly as benign as his. I think basically they are dealing with the mass of ppl who will never really know anything about computers, or much of anything else, so talking about education is chimerical, and it will all remain on the level of advertising. I especially don't like the way, like Microsoft, they attempt to put their brand on everything. The most anyone can hope for is that, as with newspapers, radio and TV, some of the take, which will undoubtedly be excessive and not helpful to the economy, can be diverted to other uses that are, like Wikipedia or Internet Archive.

Semantic search and the like, is, however, something Google is doing well, but they screwed me the other day when I wanted to know if John Phillips Sousa or John Philip Sousa was correct, simply because the incorrect usage is the more common, so when I spelled it correctly, they showed me results for the other and implied I was wrong. I don't particularly care for the auto-complete feature, and will probably turn it off in my browser.

There's no way anyone is going to be watching YouTube vids on an HD TV. Makes me wonder if he's ever seen one. Maybe someday. The only thing I would expect to see is magazines and newspapers moving to the big screen where it could be possible to both read and watch and do so on demand, as it is now done on computers and phones, but in that form they could not really be enjoyed by more than one person. There's nothing new in that, however, and it has not been successful heretofore.

The Internet is actually a very unpublic place, even more so than TV or radio, and of course much more so than when ppl went to the movies on Friday and Saturday night. I don't really think opinions, networks and tweets exactly makes up for it, tho of course it does make for the possibility of a larger market or forum geographically, and that helps in the same way as it does for selling products. The Internet in other words, is an instrument for the expansion of markets, of globalization, but not for community. I would expect that as it grows larger it will devolve as well as segment.

The argument he made re monopoly is the same argument Gates, himself, made, without effect.

I'm afraid the indications are that we are heading for another batch of asset bubbles as a result of loose money policies, not any kind of sustained improvement.

JohnGelles  09/27/2010 08:33 PM Report

Erich Schmidt, Larry Page and Sergey Brin have in their heads visions of the future of news, TV, the web, etc., you and I at home want to know all about. If we earn a living and we have a life (sex, sports, escape, learning, music, health, etc., ) the visions we wonder about seem substantial.

If we are deprived, their visions are not immediate. Economic development that may be on the way, or political reform to break us out of prison, will be real -- Moore's law will not be obvious to us.

At the end of the conversation we are reminded that a good book or TV hour is to still be prized.

The future in which an intellectual robot coach-companion will radically improve our use of time, where books and TV will be obsolete and radically more efficient entertainments and professional maintenance systems will have emerged, is what these Google guys have to offer NOW -- if we want it.

I want it. And I want Jack Ma's vision too.

Of course, what I don't want is the six year wait for a busted housing bubble (or busted commercial real estate bubble) to be absorbed.

I think Google and the Valley ought to help create an Economic Security Agency, better than the NSA, to deal law and economics the way so many surgeons have dealt with heart emergencies: they saw the problem with nature's plumbing and fixed it for the moment.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  09/27/2010 07:21 PM Report

I love Google except when I hate it. If you don't know what I mean please watch a Bing commercial. "Google Instant"? How about "Google Nailed It"? "So our idea is that we can begin to understand your intent when you do a search like that." Yes! A thousand times yes!

More on Google Goggles and Google TV please.

"The higher-end phones, of course, will be approaching supercomputers." WOW squared.

"Computers should ultimately be in the service of us, not the other way around." Indeed--this is taking decades. At Walgreen's when the computer beeps I say my zip code (security for credit card purchases). I serve the computer.

Great job Charlie!