Predictions coming true...

In a post dated way back in 2002, Tim O'Reilly predicted that the future of computing and internet will revolve around the following

• Wireless
• Search engines
• Instant messengers
• weblogs
• file sharing
• web spidering
• grid computing

He also predicted the email services growing beyond size limits and getting integrated with search features. Could his prediction be any nearer to reality now? That's what I would call vision.

what's in store for the future OS? GooOS?

Yet another offering from the google for changing the way we access the net? Its very likely that they come up with something like an 'Online operating system'

Read Great post about what Google is up to by Rich Skrenta.

What are all those OS Researchers doing at Google?

Rob Pike has gone to Google. Yes, that Rob Pike -- the OS researcher, the member of the original Unix team from Bell Labs. This guy isn't just some labs hood ornament; he writes code, lots of it. Big chunks of whole new operating systems like Plan 9.

Look at the depth of the research background of the Google employees in OS, networking, and distributed systems. Compiler Optimization. Thread migration. Distributed shared memory.

I'm a sucker for cool OS research. Browsing papers from Google employees about
distributed systems, thread migration, network shared memory, GFS, makes me
feel like a kid in Tomorrowland wondering when we're going to Mars. Wouldn't
it be great, as an engineer, to have production versions of all this great
research.

Google engineers do!

And we netizens have a lot to look forward to!