I guess we're just taking for granted that Google does something incredible on a weekly basis, to such a degree that we don't even notice any more. Here's some things that are basically magic that Google has quietly (or loudly, sometimes) launched:
Automatic real-time text translation from videos, on your phone. You point your phone at a sign in Thailand and it changes the words to English.
Computer vision systems that index the themes of your photographs. You can search your Google photos for "dog" and it finds all the photos with dogs.
A computer that beats all living humans at board games.
Cars that drive themselves. Not the ones that kill their drivers, like Tesla's, or that can't see stop lights, like Uber's, or that run into people all the time, like GM's. Actual self-driving cars that will pick your ass up and take you to Taco Bell.
An airborne internet service that can be deployed anywhere in the world on short notice.
And, under all of that, a service platform that remains fast, reliable, and economical to operate even after two decades of exponential user growth, which provides free services such as searching all documents ever written, delivering the majority of the world's email, etc, all free of charge.
Automatic real-time text translation from videos, on your phone. You point your phone at a sign in Thailand and it changes the words to English.
Computer vision systems that index the themes of your photographs. You can search your Google photos for "dog" and it finds all the photos with dogs.
A computer that beats all living humans at board games.
Cars that drive themselves. Not the ones that kill their drivers, like Tesla's, or that can't see stop lights, like Uber's, or that run into people all the time, like GM's. Actual self-driving cars that will pick your ass up and take you to Taco Bell.
An airborne internet service that can be deployed anywhere in the world on short notice.
And, under all of that, a service platform that remains fast, reliable, and economical to operate even after two decades of exponential user growth, which provides free services such as searching all documents ever written, delivering the majority of the world's email, etc, all free of charge.