NEW DELHI: At Google's annual event in San Francisco, its CEO Larry Page said the world required a place where existing laws didn't apply so that technology companies could experiment and test out services without worrying about their implications in real world.
"The pace of change in the world is increasing. But the problem is some of the institutions are very old... the laws (about technology) are very old. Some laws are 50-years old. These can't be right as they were (formed) before there was the internet. May be more of us (people part of technology industry and web) need to go into other areas to help (the world) improve and understand technology," Page said at Google I/O, an event that was streamed live across the world and watched by over one million people.
"Maybe we should set aside a small part of the world. As technologists, we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out what would be the effect on the society and people without actually deploying it in the normal world," page added. Google, which is one of the biggest and most influential technology companies in the world, is working on several new products that fundamentally challenge the existing laws and norms in the society. For example, it is testing driverless cars that use its mapping technologies to navigate the traffic on the road without any help from a human driver. Though some of these cars have been running on the streets of San Francisco for over one year now, they cannot be sold in the market unless existing traffic laws are changed. Currently, no country has definite traffic laws on driverless cars. Recently, the company also started selling a limited-edition of Google Glass, a tiny computer that a user can wear as a glass. It allows people to take photos and videos of what they are looking at. It is a device that challenges several established social norms and laws about privacy and security. Google is planning to introduce the gadget in the retail market next year.
"We haven't built a mechanism to allow experimentation. There are many important and exciting things you can do. But you can't because they are illegal or not allowed by regulation," said Page. Google, and other technology companies like Twitter, Facebook, Blackberry, have often come under fire from governments across the world due to security and privacy concerns. In his comments at the I/O, Page also told technology companies to not just bitterly compete with others but move out of their comfort zones.
"The pace of change in the world is increasing. But the problem is some of the institutions are very old... the laws (about technology) are very old. Some laws are 50-years old. These can't be right as they were (formed) before there was the internet. May be more of us (people part of technology industry and web) need to go into other areas to help (the world) improve and understand technology," Page said at Google I/O, an event that was streamed live across the world and watched by over one million people.
"Maybe we should set aside a small part of the world. As technologists, we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out what would be the effect on the society and people without actually deploying it in the normal world," page added. Google, which is one of the biggest and most influential technology companies in the world, is working on several new products that fundamentally challenge the existing laws and norms in the society. For example, it is testing driverless cars that use its mapping technologies to navigate the traffic on the road without any help from a human driver. Though some of these cars have been running on the streets of San Francisco for over one year now, they cannot be sold in the market unless existing traffic laws are changed. Currently, no country has definite traffic laws on driverless cars. Recently, the company also started selling a limited-edition of Google Glass, a tiny computer that a user can wear as a glass. It allows people to take photos and videos of what they are looking at. It is a device that challenges several established social norms and laws about privacy and security. Google is planning to introduce the gadget in the retail market next year.
"We haven't built a mechanism to allow experimentation. There are many important and exciting things you can do. But you can't because they are illegal or not allowed by regulation," said Page. Google, and other technology companies like Twitter, Facebook, Blackberry, have often come under fire from governments across the world due to security and privacy concerns. In his comments at the I/O, Page also told technology companies to not just bitterly compete with others but move out of their comfort zones.
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