A brainier Web is coming, and the next generation of companies will anticipate your needs. Early this year, much like Gates 14 years ago, Google Senior Vice President of Product Management Jonathan Rosenberg wrote a lengthy memo foretelling a day when a perfect search engine would comprehend all of the world's information and the meaning behind every user query, and deliver to users not a dump truck full of search results, but The Answer.

--Kevin Maney, What Scares Google