Future of Tech in Cars and Outlandish Ideas

As we embark on a new year, most people will be looking to the future and trying to predict the new technology. For example, the CEO of Google Larry Page believes that computers will be the new norm when it comes to driving and beyond that. There are already plenty of driverless cars that roaming the streets of California. For a purely engineering point of view, it will enhance the safety of drivers. Throw in some more application development and the sky in the limit for tech. Picture this: your car could drop you off and then go park itself somewhere else and then whenever you need it, our phone notices that you're walking out of the building, and your car is there immediately by the time you get downstairs. Outlandish ideas and effective, pragmatic management rarely go hand in hand. What's remarkable about Page is that while he's been pushing his engineers and executives to pursue big dreams, he has also been running a complex $38 billion business of 53,000 workers with surprising efficacy. When he took over in April 2011, Google's once-phenomenal innovation engine was showing signs of age, and bureaucracy was beginning to take root. Page quickly reorganized the company to give top executives more responsibility and accountability and to sharpen Google's focus on a handful of product areas.