tedster - 6:58 pm on Sep 18, 2008 (gmt 0)

You can begin to see the plan behind all those diverse products that Google is developing, and their almost insatiable appetite for data.

This vision of the future is both inspiring and chilling. The missing ingredient here, as many readers may immediately notice, is privacy. Now I don't want to take this thread off into a privacy rights rant. But it must be noted that privacy is a major challenge, now already and more so in the future. Privacy is at least as tough a problem as the development of more intelligent search is. And it's a challenge that needs to be met with same level of technical creativity, if not more. The balance of human society depends on it.

That said, I do like the vision of the Intelligent Cloud. I can see many benefits, both personal and social. Less time wasted with struggles that someone else, somewhere else, has already resolved!