Google Wave will change the world

2009/06/06

The Google Wave Developer Preview above is an hour and twenty minutes long. It's hard for most of us to find that big a chunk of free time; I couldn't do it until Saturday and even then I was only able to do it because it rained so that yard work had to wait. Never mind: it's important, you need to find the time.

The title is "Developer Preview", I emphatically want you to understand that it doesn't matter if you are a developer, a blogger or just someone who uses their computer for email and browsing only: you need to watch this. Google Wave is the future and it's going to affect so many things that it will be years before the dust all settles and we realize how much this little preview meant.

I don't think most of the folks who have written about Google Wave realize what this could mean. It could mean big problems for Microsoft. It definitely means big changes for bloggers, for sites like Twitter, Facebook and everyone else. It could eventually kill email, at least as we know it now. This is big, big, big.

I can easily imagine this website being taken over by Wave. I can easily imagine that any site that doesn't let Wave in will have a hard time surviving. This IS "Web 4.0", Internet Next Generation, the mother of all paradigm shifts..

No, I'm not joking. Google Wave will replace blogging as we know it. It will replace SharePoint, email, even affect collaborative programming. Google Wave will affect and infiltrate applications and apps will be writen specifically to run within its framework. It kills Instant Messaging, translation tools.. it touches so many things that I'm going to need days to even start thinking about all of it. It's that big.

Do you think I'm exaggerating? If anything, I'm probably understating the importance. This is a tsunami wave that's going to sweep over the Internet. Again, I'm not kidding. Google Wave is very serious and important and I doubt anyone can fully comprehend how far reaching this could be.

Go watch the video. If you disagree, tell me why. I don't think you will.