No othertechspecialistseems to haveheard abouttheproject though, and when the GuardianaskedGoogle's UKoffice for a comment, it answered: "Wedon't comment onrumour and speculation."
What's happening is that as IT becomes central to how businesses operate, the CIO becomes less of a pure techspecialist and more of a business executive, heavily involved in strategy.
Summers obliged with what sounded a lot like received VC wisdom: tech investors should look for specialist ideas that can spread quickly, and on a mass scale.