Google has a long way to go before completely organizing the world’s information.
It will have finally … arrived when you will be able to use a search engine to find objects in the house (“where are my glasses?”) or in the office (“where is my stapler?”) in the same way that you locate a book in a library through its electronic catalogue.
Luciano Floridi, Faculty of Philosophy and IEG, Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford.
Interestingly, Professor Floridi sees the future limited by the “energy bottleneck of our batteries” as much as anything else.