The multiverse (or meta-universe) is the hypothetical set of infinite or finite possible universes (including the Universe we consistently experience) that together comprise everything that exists
The various universes within the multiverse are also called "parallel universes" or "alternate universes".
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Introduction

The “Google web multiverse” is the story of a journey inside the Google technologies for software developers.

I used the term “multiverse” because today Google offers multiple technologies for web development that often overlap each other in a confused and inconsistent way.
I believe that “Big G” is undertaking a social-technological experiment, proposing multiple eco-systems for web development assuming that only the best will survive as a sort of Darwinian selection, the survivor of the fittest.
Multiple web ecosystems means multiple universes: hence the title.
The story begins with an unscheduled event in which I participated in November 2014: the Rome Google DevFest.
It was like landing on an unknown planet and finding it inhabited by beings similar to humans and at the same time different: our twins, but living and speaking with a partial different logic.
A fantastic parallel universe, a dystonia, requiring an in-depth investigation.
So I began to contact the people who had spoken at the event speakers to ask them for more information about what they had presented; the conversations quickly turned into interviews.
Below I have collected all the interviews together in order to present alternative technologies and to better understand Google’s programming strategies.

The series

• Italiano: Google: DevFest Roma 2014 (Università Roma TRE, 8 novembre 2014) and English Google DevFest Rome 2014 (University Roma TRE, November 8, 2014)
• Italiano: Costruiamo insieme una storia immersiva – intervista a Serena Zonca (12 novembre 2014) and English: Let's build an immersive storytelling - Interview with Serena Zonca (November 12th, 2014)
• Let’s develop immersive multimedia experiences about history - Interview with Darius Arya “multi-platform” archaeologist (18th November 2014)
• Storia: progettare esperienze multimediali immersive - intervista a Darius Arya, archeologo multi-piattaforma (18 novembre 2014)
• Italiano: Il lavoro al tempo del web - Intervista a Massimo Chiriatti (24 novembre 2014) and English Job in the Time of Web – Interview with Massimo Chiriatti (November 24, 2014)
• “Let’s expose Rome” with a Cloud Cult Platform: a conversation with Camelia Boban and Simone Pulcini about semantic web (15th December 2014)
• Rome Dev Fest 2014: Android TV & Chromecast, a conversation with Matteo Bonifazi and Alessandro Martellucci (2nd January 2015)
• GDG Rome Devfest 2014 - An introduction to Go by Alessandro Mancini (8th January 2015)
• Towards Web 3.0, an interview with Roberto Navigli and Daniele Vannella (9th January 2014)
• The Dart side of web development: a conversation with Claudio d’Angelis and Giovanni Laquidara (11th January 2015)
• Rome GDGFest 2014: how replicate classic arcade “Space Invaders” in Unity3d, by Vincenzo Favara (12th January 2015)
• AngularJS and the future of web programming: a talk with Vittorio Conte (February, 4th 2015)

(Italian translation)

Premessa

Il “Google Web multiverso” è il racconto di un viaggio all’interno delle tecnologie di Google per gli sviluppatori software.
Ho usato il termine “Multiuniverso” perché oggi Google propone molteplici tecnologie per lo sviluppo web che spesso si sovrappongono tra loro in modo confuso e poco coerente.
Credo che Big G stia tentando un esperimento social-tecnologico: proporre contemporaneamente più eco-sistemi per lo sviluppo web puntando sul fatto che sopravvivranno solo i migliori.
Molteplici ecosistemi web significa molteplici universi: ecco perché questo titolo.
Questo racconto nasce da un evento a cui ho partecipato, in modo un po’ casuale, nel novembre 2014: la Google DevFest di Roma di Novembre 2014.
È stato come sbarcare su un pianeta sconosciuto e trovarlo abitato da umanoidi simili agli esseri umani e contemporaneamente diversi: nostri gemelli che però vivono e parlano con logiche in parti dissimili.
Una fantastica distonia che richiedeva un approfondimento di indagini.
Così ho cominciato a contattare i relatori dell’evento per chiedere loro maggiori informazioni su quello che avevano presentato; i colloqui si sono presto trasformati in interviste.
Le interviste in un percorso di ricerca.