I'm arguing that connectivity has now become destiny. Connectivity is a lifeline.It's an opportunity. And it also creates multiple sources and possibilities for your identity in ways that we're just starting to appreciate today.
And what they're constantly doing, I mean, this is the thing. Connectivity is when we think about the world in 10 years, we see ourselves.
What was the best and the worst part of celebrity? connectivity of our fans was just amazing.
Kevin Mitnick: Ok? I, I, I, you know now I need a phone because if I'm gonna connect to NORAD I need some connectivity , so I'm gonna connect to the phone here.So give me a second, and what we're gonna do here now, you might have to take cover,
brand new way. All of these devices, I think, are examples of ways in which our world will become more intelligent with pervasive connectivity and the opportunities that you have as Googlers to organize that information and to deal with the new paths to consumers,and the new devices in our lives is just tremendous.
were invented collaboratively-- like the ARPANET and the Internet Protocols as well as the computer-- and partly because the digital revolution is about networking and connectivity , and thus it allows for a collaborative process. In fact, when I was doing this book, I was writing about how the genetic code of the DNA has infused into it this collaborative nature, partly
and those trends are population, urbanization, littoralization-- which is just the tendency for things to cluster on coastlines-- and then most importantly electronic network connectivity . Now, those first three trends are old. They've been around for at least 200 years since the beginning of the European Industrial Revolution.
Now a lot of you here, I mean this is Google Earth. You have the velocity here, the connectivity here, to amplify the voices who wanna change the world for the better. And that's what I'm talking about as a collective, but also on an individual level you can do a lot. We're, we don't need CNN, we don't need the New York Times, or Al Jazeera or
At the time we were, we first went into business, half the c-, adults in the country had cell phones; now 80% do. At the time we went into existence, we didn't even ask a question about wireless connectivity . It was only something that people with the most sophisticated equipment could possibly do, is connect to the Internet wirelessly. Now, we find that 53% of, of people connect either through wireless cards in there, their laptops or portable computers, or through their handheld devices. About a third of cell
ourselves uh literally without a business. Our business was to do software for embedded devices. Uh nobody was going to build a device. Uh we did some connectivity software. One of the big learnings we had was that people wanted to connect these to their computers. So we did that. We did this handwriting recognition called graffiti.
And if you want to avoid having -- introducing lies into the routing tables, one way to do that is to have tables that show which entities, which autonomous systems are allowed to announce what connectivity they have. If it turns out that you received a routing update which isn't confirmed by a digitally signed entry in a table that should be publicly available, you might discard that particular update and maybe even raise a red flag and say somebody is trying to spoof the system into directing traffic where it doesn't belong.
- Hubs like O'Hare mean you can get pretty much anywhere in the world in just a few flights. But that connectivity also has consequences. In August, 2025, thunderstorms shut down Chicago O'Hare, and 280 flights were canceled and 80 were diverted.
connected to the cosmos chemically. And that connectivity , let's let's make it a little more poetic. Not only are we alive in this universe,
ity when what we actually know about our connective. It is so limited. Uh, I think part of that that lack of seemingly like knowledge of that connectivity is is what we see in the media in public. Right when we think about the everyday spaces, though, that there's been this long history of connection. Whether we're talking about how aim the American Indian movement, you know, partnered or worked with, uh those involved in
It had Bluetooth. It had sensors. It had internet connectivity . And you had to buy these very expensive sachets to make the perfect smoothie, which was brilliant, until some journalist at Bloomberg
This becomes the new connectivity layer.
Technology allows for greater connectivity , more information, better health care.
protects their connectivity , and is doing it at an appropriate scale.
And we have other connectivity with data centers.
You have good connectivity with Earth.
So we have great connectivity up there in terms of being able to make voice phone calls.
That shows connectivity ? How do you create that just by moving your body very specific ways?
reception no connectivity no it's just like nomic and these are people who are trying to do everything they can to save
And I'm arguing that's not true. I'm arguing that connectivity has now become destiny. Connectivity is a lifeline.
to the long histories of our cities have. And now the connectivity between those cities is becoming so robust that we are becoming what I call "a global network civilization"-- not a world in which states and the relations among them actually operate the system.
So like I said, I want to get more into some of the maps, and I want to talk about what the supply chain world of total connectivity looks like. Well, it's a world in fact where we have very substantial mobility of people.
So I think that we need to differentiate between the short term populism of politicians and the long term realities of a world in which connectivity facilitates migration. More passports have visa free access around the world.
And you certainly heard in 2015 about the Asia Infrastructure and Investment Bank, which is going to be putting up $150 billion and more with many countries participating in that connectivity mission.
And you certainly heard in 2015 about the Asia Infrastructure and Investment Bank, which is going to be putting up $150 billion and more with many countries participating One is this connectivity , and the other is urbanization.
Remember that most-- mobile connectivity in India is metered.
So the connectivity , in some senses, can contribute to mental illness.
And what they're constantly doing, I mean, this is the thing. And now with digital connectivity , everybody being connected, it should be possible to get the like minded people to start building these interesting and powerful
you could just assume connectivity .
Without permissionless ambient connectivity , simple things become hard.
And actually if you look at the other cities and other countries involved in the Arab Spring, you see a very, very similar pattern of this explosion of connectivity after 2000. When the uprising came in 2011, that fundamentally changed the way that the conflict developed in Syria.
He says you can apply the same idea to a city. have a lot of connectivity , and you don't have a high population density.
So the connectivity is what draws people in.
One hour of connectivity in kind of a public hotspot place costs $5 an hour in a country where
He focuses on connectivity , mobility, and infrastructure in the Downtown Project and is a general partner at Vegas Tech Fund.
believe in the connectivity of live and that that's really powerful for um certain kinds of brands. I mean, it's
And she wrote this great book called "Anywhere", about global connectivity and business initiatives that can really draw a lot of value from that increased connectivity in our world. So please welcome Emily Nagle Green to Google Boston.
I'm a researcher and Yankee Group is a 40, 4-0, 40-year old research firm that is based here in Boston but is focused on the global revolution in connectivity that is underway. I'm a former engineer. I started my life as a software developer, but it was so long ago that I would be homeless if I had to go back to that profession right now.
by 2013, and they were like clearly all developed and already very wealthy countries. And what do you think this kind of explosion of technology and connectivity within these already wealthy and like very privileged countries, like what kind of bearing would that have in like the relative development of developing countries? Because I think this will provide a great amount of opportunity for people who are already connected but for countries who are not even --
platforms to provide the connectivity . At the same time, increasingly companies are depending on clusters of experts to get together and work on critical projects.
It's just an urbanity and connectivity .
And once you start asking questions about connectivity and how to z connectivity , z then as a scientist,
And the prediction offered by this brain connectivity still held true or still was significant even when you controlled for things like how close they
You see a very sparse connectivity .
So you can play with the connectivity of essentially different fragments of DNA that have ever been observed in the history, really,
But both the efficiency and connectivity makes it less resilient.