Google's Cloud

Happy New Year!
I recently read an article in the NYT's Sunday business section. Essentially, the article concerned Google's ongoing high-stakes competition with Microsoft in Microsoft's backyard. Most interesting for me was a detailed mention about Google's belief that, in the very near future, 90% of all computing tasks will be accomplished online. Google calls it "the cloud." For example, Google now has a free service that allows a user to, for example, create a document on a Google site (docs.google.com) which can be accessed from any computer, anytime, anywhere. I've checked it out and I'm pretty excited about the possibilities--do not have to have your computer with you at all times, for one thing. There are some privacy concerns but that is true in all working online on any computer. Once again, that issue should be dealt with by our elected representatives (re: electronic privacy should be one of the most important issues right now and in the coming decades). Check out this Google offering and see what you think.
drfaust