Googles Quiet Revolution

We are witnesses to the seed planting of revolution. As the masses look for escape clauses in their SUV leases, real life distractions keep their thoughts focused elsewhere-Google's impact upon the world and its tech future is an obscure byline in the Wall Street Journal, or less, an industry news portal. Certainly the Paul Reveres of the tech world are shouting "Revolution!" and few are noticing.

WebProWorld Four years ago, Paul Graham set himself up as a prophet with a lengthy AOL's Xdrive, offering the public vast amounts of online storage. All of this seems amazingly close to Sun Microsystem's Jonathan Schwartz' imagining of a world where computing and Internet become as readily available and commonly used as electricity. And then, there's Om Malik with: "To some extent, Google is bringing back the architecture of the mainframe to render Microsoft obsolete. In the future, all computing devices, whether it be the PC, mobile phone, TV, etc., will simply be terminals that "plug-in" to Google's massive server grid and application services." It appears the potential of Google goes beyond changing the lexicon, but may indeed change entire business models as the world switches on an ad-supported GoogleNet.