My January 2005 Google Rant
John Dvorak is writing about the Google Browser. Yawn. I wrote about a Google Browser back in 2001. (Kottke gave me credit. Thanks Jason!) In fact, in my Google 2.0 article I wrote about a Google client. In 2001 I was talking about Google searching for ways to create a new platform.
I think Google is going to render operating systems irrelvant. Consider the Google Browser as a first step in the direction of the Google Client, where the client does much more than allow for web activity. Once the Google Client takes over, you’ll see the Google Platform, where Google actually becomes a platform for development and activity. You can already see a lot of this in Google Labs. Look at their APIs. Look at what content they are going after.
Google isn’t about search. Google is about getting between you and all information in the world, including your own information such as medical information, cell phone conversations, geographic location, food consumption history, and much more. Google will build the Ghost. Trust me. It is coming. Secretly, silently. And yes, also in plain sight. You have to love it.
(Who wants me write more about the Ghost? It is an extremely powerful idea. It is about the future of computing and usability.)