Friday, March 10, 2006

Google buys on-line word processor

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/84648/google-does-the-writely-thing.html

Does anybody use this thing? Would anybody use this thing? I sorta see the point, but should we become even more dependent on an external infrastructure for processes and applications? Is it maybe a little... contra-survival?

Remember that Sun Micro-Systems boss who was afraid the average user would one day have access to enough computer power to create deadly threats like rouge nano-tech and believed we should start having controled networks doling out computer power to weaker home machines? Are we slowly buying into the Spime future wireless utopia where cartons of milk talk to our fridge and not noticing we're ending up in the same place?

My brain is in think mode. Perhaps some nice numbing TV....

Here, play with this:

http://www.viridiandesign.org/2006/03/viridian-note-00459-emerging.html

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