"The problem is that today's online services turn friendship into fast food -- wrapping everyone in 'friend' paper, " Google executive Vic Gundotra writes in a blog post.
It does everything from breeding new seeds and cattle, to creating ultra-thin edible wrappingpaper for foodstuffs that changes colour when the food goes off, to running a nanotechnology laboratory creating biodegradable ultra-strong fabrics and wound dressings.