Fundamental change in computing
Vic Gundotra is Engineering VP at Google. In the added clip he talks about why he left Microsoft to join Google. He explains how his daughter's simple question caused him to rethink the future of computing.
Vic Gundotra joined Google in 2007 as a Vice President of Engineering, responsible for developer evangelism and open source programs. He also oversees applications development. In this interview Vic talks with Tim O'Reilly (founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc.).
[blockquote]We have to recognize that when we built software for a phone it is not the same model as a PC. A mobile phone has some unique atributes. It has eyes (camera), ears (microphone), skin (you can touch it) and it knows your location. Software has to take advantage of those atributes[/blockquote]
Vic gives a great examples on how his four years old daughter gave him new perspective. It was on that moment he was talking with someone and didn't knew the answer on a question. His daughter asked: but daddy where is your phone. With other words for her a mobile phone is the ultimate answering machine. It shows on how children think and probably shows us the future of mobile devices. The connect us to an unlimited amount of data where we can easily (in the future) find real time an answer on everything.