I don’t know about you but to me cool things don’t necessarily have to have a clear utility, and here’s a great example of what I mean: check out this wild Chrome experiment, a 3-D graph of worldwide Google search volume. This was created by the ‘Google Data Arts Team’… is it just me or does ‘data arts’ sound like a fun job?
Regardless of what you think about Google otherwise you have to give them credit for making it a policy to pay PhD’s to spend 20 percent of their time exploring new possibilities latent in technology that might not otherwise be discovered.
