mrMister - 9:00 pm on Mar 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

One need only look at the way Google Desktop search obliterates the line between desktop and web

I don't see how it obliterates it. It's still very much a desktop application, it's not a thin client. Sure it has an HTML interface but that's not a defining merger of Internet and Desktop. My Television has an HTML inferface, but that's for network use, there's no link between it and the Internet.

Or am I misinterperating your point?