Update from Google:Google's Cloud Looms Large

Google's Cloud Looms Large: How might expanding Google's cloud-computing service alter the digital world? Kate Greene. MIT Technology Review. Online December 2007. …many people in the industry believe that Google will pull together its disparate cloud-computing offerings under a larger umbrella service, and people are eager to understand the consequences of such a project. ...Schillace (Google engineering director in charge of collaborate Web applications) says that by moving applications and data to the Internet, Google is helping make the computer disappear. "…people interacted with computers using command lines … then used a graphical interface; now people can do much of their work in a Web browser, which can be on a personal computer or a small handheld device. "It's about letting the computer get out of our way so we can work with other people and share our information."