Big G-Wave coming?

I am one of the many who went to watch the presentation of Google Wave on Youtube immediately after reading the TechCrunch article.

Google Wave could be a Big paradigm shift, and change the way we use the Web. Email, chat, discussion groups, wiki, IRC, blogs, microblogs, social network and groupware all in one. Of course I have signed up as a user and developer, but so has everybody and I don’t hold my breath to receive an invitation soon. Wave may be a Facebook killer and a new Twitter much more integrated with the rest of the Web. Email and IM are obsolete, we will spend our online life in front of a Wave screen. Instead of sending email, IM and tweets, writing blogs and logging on Facebook, we will plug in dynamic and interconnected Waves. It is impossible to explain Wave in a few words, I recommend to watch the 80 min video. Of the many features of Wave, those I found most interesting are its support for fast and easy co-surfing and collaborative editing of documents, real killer apps. The presentation demonstrates how you can show things to a remote friends on Google Maps—by the way Wave was develoepd by the same team which developed Google Maps.

Wave is a multi-level thing, an application run by Google, an open source platform (other operators can develop plugins for Wave or run their own Wave instance) and a protocol (interconnection and interoperability of Waves).

The blog GOOGLE, AND THE FIRST STEP TO TRANSHUMANISM says “... this gives a little sneak preview of how we, in the coming decades, will evolve transhuman. At one point, artificial intelligence now used to choose which ads to display on your homepage, will be applied to the bigger picture and that is the point where we actually will create something bigger than ourselves. Where the cloud comes more powerful than the crowd. Because, if you didn’t realize this yet… Google. Is. Skynet.”. As a transhumanist, I really look forward to trying Wave. Transhumanism , a sparse and global social movement, required the Web as an essential enabler to bloom, and I wonder how we will use this new powerful communication platform.

By enabling us to do things much faster the Web, the new Web 2.0 (is Wave the first example of Web 3.0?) and the mobile Web wake emergent properties of our collective consciousness. We could send snailmail letters hundreds of years ago, but we could not build a new global social movement in a matter of days. Wave may permit doing things even much faster and achieve a critical mass to enable new emergent waves in our developing noosphere.

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