Downtown Tech: August 2005

Will Google Become the New Microsoft?

I have seen many posts on Google as an operating system recently. Is this where we're headed? Will the infatuation with Google change if it takes over as king of the software world? Will there be an anti-Google sentiment. I'd love to have a single point of reference for all my information, remember Bill Gates' "Information at your Fingertips", but I get nervous about any one company possessing it all.

Marc Orchant from theunofficailmicrosoftweblog has the post "Om Malik riffs on the Google OS" which featured a Flash video called Epic 2014. You have to watch it. It is a great, eight minute video on where we've been and some fiction on where the authors feel we might be headed.

Have you seen Epic 2014? It’s a future history story, nicely done in Flash, that predicts a world where Google’s grid redefines everything from computing to the news and entertainment media. A few years ago, it was considered a charming bit of science fiction. But as the year 2014 starts looking like reality, rather than than some far-flung date in the future, Google continues to release new products/services that erode the edges of our current computing paradigm.

Om Malik's post, Google the Ultimate Deflator.

Jason Kottke's post, GoogleOS? YahooOS? MozillaOS? WebOS?.

One more story, Google OS by 2010 on osnews.

Google, it's not your father's search engine.
What do you think?