And that’s the plan. Google’s CEO Larry Page said on stage “we should be building things that don’t exist.” {Update: After the keynote I talked with co-founder Sergey Brin who explained “It’s important to be willing to take risks, and we do take risks, I’m very excited about these [tapping the Google Glass he was currently wearing]. We’re willing to make bets. Some of them pan out, some of them don’t. But I think there are a lot of companies that as they grow they become more conservative.”}
Google doesn’t have to be conservative. Search, maps, Android — they aren’t going to disappear. And with that foundation, Google is free to try, tinker and even fail. But when it fails, it learns, and for Google, that’s the whole point.