This article is about the CEO of Google Corporations, Sundar Pichai, and the direction that he wants to lead Google in in the future. The article states some background information on Pichai when he grew up in India, then it talks about how Google is attempting to bring internet access to those who have been unable to access information online. It compares Google's current approach to Facebook's earlier attempt to connect India to the internet. Facebook's program was called Free Basics and it offered services like Wikipedia, weather, and, of course, Facebook. Unfortunately, India's government banned differential pricing plans which included Free Basics. Google is trying to approach the situation at a different angle by reducing the amount of data its devices use and help provide free bandwidth for people to use whichever services they want.
I think this is really amazing that someone is so dedicated to encouraging other people explore and learn about things they might not know about by giving them access to the internet. I also think it says a lot when a big company, such as Google, steps up to help them. This situation somewhat reminds me of muckrakers, in the sense that they were informing the general public of things going on around them that they knew nothing about but had the right to know. I want to see Google succeed in their goal of giving internet access to everyone but I realize I might have to wait quite a bit to see that happen. Despite how long it might take, I do want Google to achieve their goal.
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I think it's great that the CEO of such a large company is so willing a dedicated to bring internet access to those who wouldn't have it otherwise. -Claudia Anthony
ReplyDeleteI think it's great how someone who grew up in a place where the internet, etc wasn't available is trying to give back and prevent the following generations from going through the same thing
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