Google’s Prophecies for the Web

Last night, Google’s SVP, Product Management Jonathan Rosenberg posted something of a state of the Internet address on the Official Google Blog. In this post, he made four predictions for the web:

1. All the world’s information will be accessible from the palm of every person

4. The vast majority of computing will occur in the cloud

So basically, everything will be in a mobile cloud of user generated content where only the best content will thrive. At least that’s my interpretation of what Rosenberg had to say (and he had a LOT to say – almost 4,500 words).

Numbers 2 and 3 pretty much go hand in hand, and are things we are already seeing in the online advertising industry. I just referenced a Wall Street Journal article on this a little bit ago in fact.

This is one of those "Google’s waxing intellectual about the future of the Internet, so we had better pay attention" posts. I don’t think any of this is anything we didn’t already know (at least on a sub-conscious level), but seeing it all come together in a large post from the web giant that is Google really puts it all into perspective.