At #Google_X, a Top-Secret Lab Dreaming Up the Future - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/14/technology/at-google-x-a-top-secret-lab-dreaming-up-the-future.html?_r=1&pagewanted=al
space elevators, a longtime fantasy of Google’s founders and other Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, could collect information or haul things into space.
(...) driverless cars
(...) Robots