"The Internship"

I’m feeling lucky is the story of an employee at Google who was there in the founding stages of the company. While Edward’s experience was a crazy roller coaster ride, now Google is the world’s most successful company, and the competition to work for the company is cutthroat. A recent movie, “The Internship” explores the effect technology has had on the older generation that did not grow up surrounded by smart technology.  Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are two “middle-aged” men that work selling watches to corporate companies. However, they lose their jobs, because now orders are placed through the internet. They realize that their degrees in business are futile without knowledge of technology. On a whim, they apply for a non-paid internship with Google. Even though they have zero experience with technology, Google takes a chance and hires the energetic, innovative, yet technologically challenged men. In the end, Google comes off to be a company where the honest, hardworking, and out-of-the box thinkers are rewarded, and that even if one is incredibly smart, if they are self-centered or backstabbing, they are not wanted by Google. This is similar to what Steve Jobs was looking for in his Apple employees (except Jobs was much more rude and crass in his approach). Not a stuffed-shirt, obsessive about technology, but someone that believes that Google can change the world. In my Apple, Google, Facebook class, the prediction of technology surpassing human intelligence has come up very often, and most of us struggle with this idea. However, the movie “The Internship” says Google products and company is a people-person company. They want the best for their customers and are creating programs that are making their lives easier. Google creates fun products for fun people and is continually making itself more user friendly and accessible.