Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin On Google X’s Translation Of Research Into New Businesses — techcrunch.com

Google co-founder Sergey Brin wants the company to explore new areas of technology and develop projects that could have a huge impact on the world. Which is why he’s thrilled to be leading the company’s experimental technologies division, Google X. Google still makes the lion’s share of its profits from web search, but that doesn’t mean the company is resting on its laurels. To the contrary, it’s been expanding aggressively to work on a number of new high-risk, high-reward technologies, including everything from high-speed fiber Internet to self-driving cars to wearables to smart contact lenses.

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