With a great response received from all over the country, Google has chosen to build their first Ultra High Speed Fiber Network at Kansas City, Kansas (USA).

More than a year ago, Google had slipped in a message seeking information from interested municipalities to test and build their ultra high speed fiber-to-the-home network around United States offering the users a tremendous data transfer speed of 1 gigabit per second.

As said before, this is a great and a very significant step toward introducing the amazing next generation web apps and technologies, also considering Google’s own set of web applications. It hasn’t been revealed to how long the will take Google’s fiber network to reach the other countries and revolutionize the web experience globally. There is a more obvious answer to it, being a matter of time and money.

Google’s Chrome OS and the proposed 1Gbps internet connectivity service are closely connected. The operating systems based on cloud computing, like the Chrome OS itself, need a sound and fast internet connectivity between the entire network and the Google Fiber Network will serve that purpose.

UPCOMING TECHNOLOGY – Google’s constant attempts to spread it’s arms above it’s search engine and advertisement placements has brought in an experimental robot car that drives all by itself (under the supervision of a human safety driver), just in case the car needs help. Google’s blog said that it all works with the help of video cameras, radar sensors and a laser range finder to “see” other traffic, as well as detailed maps collected by their manually driven vehicles to navigate the road ahead.’ The car drives quite well on it’s own.

The concept of autonomous cars is not new. It as been in talks and research since quite some time. The recent conference at TED gave the attendees an opportunity to experience Google’s autonomous car first hand.

The inside view of the car

The ‘Auto driving’ demonstration

Google is hard focused on road safety and minimizing carbon emissions with their “in research” autonomous car. There is yet much time to experience the actual implementation of such vehicles because building a robot, in such case, the Google car, needs steep programming complexity and stability, teaching the machine to aptly understand the physics of motion and sensibility. This is why the Google car isn’t unmanned yet.