Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
OK, we know there's plans for a Google OS based on Chrome, and we're going to be hearing about for a year or so until it actually comes out. There's going to be a lot of speculation, analysis, and theorizing done all over the internet.
Far be it from me, of course, to not do my own overblown analysis. So here's where I see the Chrome OS going and what it means.
companies seem to be veering into their own version of "too big to fail."
That's not to say these companies are economically mismanaged messes, the result of pathetic regulation, or their collapse will destroy the world economy. In fact, all are more reliable, if not far more reliable than many of these botched institutions. They're too big to fail in that they're so widespread, and have so much potential (realized and unrealized), that they're not going away – and I suspect they rely on this.