Robert X. Cringely paints an intriguing picture of our future… well, perhaps we should call it Google’s future, since they own it:
Google will become our phone company, our cable company, our stereo system and our digital video recorder. Soon we won’t be able to live without Google, which will have marginalized the ISPs and assumed most of the market capitalization of all the service providers it has undermined — about $1 trillion in all — which places today’s $500 Google share price about eight times too low.
Possible? Definitely. Likely? Hmmm… hard to say. Scary? Yep.
