I always knew Google had a secret plan to take over the world. A few months ago, I predicted Google would go into broadband and telephone, create a monopoly in communications technology, discover how to send tastes, feelings, and emotions through fiber optics, make holograms the standard in long-distance communications, and then proceed to take over the world. Lo and behold, as I was perusing through their 2010 annual report, I found this–the first step in their master plan:
“Recently we announced a new project to build 1 gigabit per second fiber-to-the-home broadband networks for one or more U.S. cities and towns between 50,000 and 500,000 people. This access is about 100x faster than most people have today. We asked communities to come back with ideas, and one mayor had an unusual response:
‘I, William W. Bunten, mayor of the city of Topeka, Kansas, urge the citizens of Topeka to recognize and support the continuing efforts to bring Google’s ‘Fiber for Communities’ experiment to our city, and do hereby proclaim that for the month of March 2010, the city of Topeka will be known as Google, Kansas’
From such quirky tributes and detailed applications, we have seen a lot of interest in Google Fiber. Our goal with this project is to show what’s possible by driving technological development of home Internet connections at a faster rate. If we succeed, it will benefit users everywhere, as well as our own services, which can debut amazing new capabilities using higher speed connections.” -Larry Page
