The Sky's no longer the limit....

Today Google announced its intent to go boldly where no one has gone before, Space the final frontier. Google will provide end users with a conduit to journey into space and visit strange new worlds, witnessing births and deaths of stars, peeping deeper and deeper into deep space, thus fostering a new generation of space explorers who need not venture physically beyond their web browser.

The Google SpaceShip will be launching within the year, allowing its end users to travel for the first time into Space, to view NASA's massive data banks of images and videos it has collected over the years.

There seems no end in sight to what Google will do? From internet search to creating a virtual desktop (VDnet's) environment, where users instead of using there PC based word processors and spreadsheets can create, share, and store documents online. Thus, giving Microsoft a run for its money. Further, there is talk about Google venturing into voice communication, where it is working on the development of a unified data/voice communication system which will be based on the browser---thus giving companies such as Cisco a cause to be concerned about, is Google going to be a possible competitor or partner, is the question Cisco exec's are asking themselves?

Google has taken it upon itself to lead the internet generation into space. Where NASA and the Aerospace industry have failed to provide low cost public transport to Space, Google has the the next best solution to space travel. Instead of physically taking the public to space, it will bring space to them! Perhaps, the next step for Google is to partner or acquire Linden Lab's SecondLife. A social networking site, which unlike other internet social networks provides a 3D universe for users to create an alternate life, with your own personalized alter-ego or avatar. Now this site has not only attracted your typical techies and geeks, but has drawn attention from some of the worlds brand name companies who have setup shop in this virtual reality world.

A SecondLife partnership/acquisition would pave the way for Google to converge all its services into one virtual world. Thus placing Google ahead of the curve, positioning itself for the next big wave in the internet revolution. The wave of web4.0 which will integrate holographic technologies and enable users to create and visit remote worlds and destinations without leaving their homes. The Web4.0 revolution will transform our homes and workspaces into HoloDecks and HoloSuites as seen on Star Trek. Web browsing as we know it will be a thing of the past. Where user interaction with the web, will be like interacting in the Real world. Web4.0 will most certainly blur the lines between the Real-World (R-World) and Virtual-World (V-World).

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