Google: Chronicle Is Not a Sci Fi Disaster Film. It Just Seems Like It
November 12, 2019
“Google’s Cybersecurity Project ‘Chronicle’ Imploding” may not be true. If the information in the Economic Times is accurate, Google has created another business school case study about Silicon management methods, what DarkCyber describes with this acronym HSSCMM (high school science club management methods).
In 2018 Alphabet, the rejiggered “owner” of Google was created to be what the write called “an independent start up.”
Yeah, that sounds good.
The goal of Chronicle was modest: “Revolutionize cybersecurity.”
Yeah, that sounds even better.
Engadget reported in June 2019:
The cybersecurity company launched in January 2018, and it released its first commercial product, Backstory, in March. In a blog post, Chronicle CEO and co-founder Stephen Gillett said Google Cloud’s cybersecurity tools and Chronicle’s Backstory and VirusTotal are complementary and will be leveraged together.
The Economic times’ write up states:
Google’s cybersecurity project named “Chronicle” is imploding in trouble and some employees feel its management “abandoned and betrayed” the original vision, media reports said.
Staff, including the CEO, have looked for green pastures elsewhere. Chronicle was moved back to the Google mother ship. Salaries were a sore point. It seems Chronicle employees were paid less than other “real” Googlers.
Let’s assume that the information is maybe, sort of accurate. In this non sci-fi thought space, here are some observations:
- Thinking, assembling, announcing, and doing can be enhanced with management. No management, problems. Google seems beset with some non-linear challenges.
- The life span of this Google activity seems brief: January 2018 to November 2019. Is the time between launch and problems becoming more abbreviated?
- Google’s moon shot factory may be veering more and more into a boundary world: Big ideas fail due to the humans working on creating a reality.
To sum up: Chronicle may be another marker on the management superhighway. On the other hand, the Chronicle issue is real.
We’re back to Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentinean writer, who observed:
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
My high school science club was unreal but real as well. Click here for the theme song to Chronicle. Sorry, I meant Twilight Zone.
Stephen E Arnold, November 11, 2019
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