[sneak]

I think that in the end, Google's greatest gift to the world will be all the experience and knowledge that they put into the minds of the world's best engineers that worked on big stuff there over the last ten years or so.

Those people are building truly amazing things now based on that (for lack of a better term) incubator for the wider industry.

The stuff that has been built directly by Google is tremendous, to be sure. But the fundamental understandings that have come out of their R&D to do it will benefit everyone across the entire industry. It's magical to watch.