6 Google Secret Projects That Will Change Our World Soon

We are used to the fact that Google is primarily a search engine, useful online services and Android. However, in reality, the ambitions of this company are much broader. In this article, you will learn about several secret Google projects that have the potential to change this planet for the better.

Google X is one of the Alphabet holding companies. It is located in an unremarkable building a few kilometers from the Googleplex headquarters in Mountain View, California. The work of the company is controlled personally by Sergey Brin, one of the co-founders of Google. Journalists are rarely allowed here, but this is where the most interesting thing happens.

1. Project Loon

The goal of this project is to provide Internet access to residents of rural areas and remote regions where it is impossible to create a terrestrial infrastructure. To do this, Google proposes to launch high-altitude balloons, which will constantly be in the sky at an altitude of about 18 kilometers. Balloons will be able to move to specified points or, conversely, hover in one place due to the use of different air currents.

2. Project Titan

Project Titan is also designed to create a single worldwide wireless network, but with the help of drones hovering in the sky. They look like ultralight airplanes, whose wings contain solar panels that provide uninterrupted power to the devices. Thanks to this, drones will be able to stay in flight for years without requiring landing and refueling.

3. Baseline Study

Experienced doctors say that there are no perfectly healthy people - there are poorly examined people. Indeed, the concept of a norm regarding health and well-being is very vague. The Baseline Study project aims to fill this concept with real meaning and determine what a healthy person really is. To do this, Google wants to collect a large amount of molecular genetic information from a sufficient number of human individuals and derive a formula for ideal health. Perhaps, in the future, androids will be created using these templates?

4. Google's self-driving car

This project is quite famous, in any case, news about the next tests of the company's drones appears regularly. The works are almost at the final stage. In April 2014, the company announced that its vehicles had covered nearly 1.1 million kilometers. At the same time, Google showed a new prototype of its self-driving car, which has no steering wheel, no gas and brake pedals and is 100% autonomous. If Google really succeeds - and there are fewer doubts about it - then it will revolutionize the transportation system and save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people who die on the roads every year.

5. Google contact lenses

Google Contact Lenses is an experimental electronic radio transmitting contact lens-based sensor device that can diagnose diseases and monitor some important physiological parameters using tear fluid analysis. Currently, they are already successfully used to determine the level of glucose in the blood in patients with diabetes mellitus.

6. Google DeepMind

One of the loudest, most promising, and even slightly intimidating areas of Google's business is building artificial intelligence. So far, the company is testing its development on classic video games, image and speech recognition, text and music generation. However, in the near future, it is planned to use artificial intelligence for more serious purposes. For example, DeepMind Health will partner with the UK's National Health Service to develop and improve patient care technologies.

Do you still doubt that Google will take over the world?