After New York, London and Paris, it has arrived in Milan. A panoramic view of the entire Google world — at home, from the kitchen to the living room to the study — at work, and on the road. Many dedicated applications and a single account. A vast range of services available to simplify our daily lives. This is how the Mountain View giant imagines our lives — not in the future, but today, in the twenty-first century.

All you need is a relatively recent device capable of supporting the latest version of Android (from 4.1 onwards) or iOS (from 5 upwards), so that the Google Now application can run. "It is a software that integrates voice search with web search," explains Matteo Notargiacomo, Google's marketing coordinator. "It is an intelligent system, capable of selecting for us the information it considers most useful." How? Through the information we provide via our email account, our Google+ profile and the app's own settings. An invisible, pocket-sized assistant.

In the kitchen, it can be used to quickly search for whatever recipe or video recipe takes your fancy. By saving your search history, results will be personalised and tailored to your tastes. Missing an ingredient? You can search, again by voice command, for the nearest supermarket, and use the maps to see which route to take, which mode of transport to prefer, and what the traffic situation is like.

The entertainment area is the one to which the Mountain View giant has devoted the most space. Available is a well-stocked film library in high definition, continuously updated, with titles available to rent or buy. You can connect the tablet to the smart TV and stream the film you have just downloaded onto the living room screen.

The integration and interconnection of the various applications makes it possible to find out the soundtrack, the title, or simply search for information about your favourite actor or the one you liked most, all in real time. Google Music, a cross between Spotify and iTunes, brings together thousands of tracks, always available. You can also organise your own personal library, so you can take your favourite music with you even offline.

But the tools dedicated to study and work are perhaps the most useful. Google Drive is the tool that integrates the storage of images and documents, which we can back up — that is, copy — online. Google Docs is the open application similar to Office, which allows two connected users to edit the same document simultaneously. With Hangout, the video calling app, it is possible to speak via video and connect up to 10 users at the same time.

Worth noting is Google Culture Institute, a cultural platform that makes thousands of masterpieces of art and culture available. You can browse artistic collections, exhibitions and significant sites from around the world. You can admire a 16th-century canvas at a resolution of 7 gigabytes, or stroll along the avenues of the Palace of Versailles.

Extremely useful for frequent travellers is the instant translation of short, simple phrases. Using the voice command, you say the phrase you want to translate and you immediately get the translation to play to the person you are speaking with. Thanks to the ability to scan documents, it is also possible to translate texts, menus and signs in real time.

A single device, a single tool, capable of providing us with all of this — and always connected. Perhaps at the cost of a little privacy. It will be up to us to choose how best to use it.