Google's vision of the future is a smart assistant that follows you everywhere

Google just laid out its vision for how you'll use its services in the future, and it doesn't revolve around smartphones. The company is working towards creating a smart assistant that can follow you anywhere, according to this year's "Founders' Letter" where CEO Sundar Pichai laid out the company's biggest focus points. "Looking to the future, the next big step will be for the very concept of the'device' to fade away," CEO Sundar Pichai writes. "Over time, the computer itself--whatever its form factor--will be an intelligent assistant helping you through your day. We will move from mobile first to an AI first world." Pichai briefly introduced this catchphrase in Google's recent earnings call, but used the letter to expand on what exactly that means.