The GDrive, unconfirmed by Google and long rumored, may finally launch this year, with some tech news sites calling it the “most anticipated Google product so far.”
The Google drive would shift away from Microsoft Window’s operating system, in favor of “cloud computing,” where storage and processing is done in data centers. Users would no longer have to rely on their computers’ powerful hard drives.
I wouldn’t be surprised. I’m using like, a few percent of my gmail account, which is now 7 gigs? They’ve basically already got the infrastructure for it, in fact you can get apps that turn your gmail into a file storage service for files of a certain size. They’ve got Android the OS (OS of our future robotic overlords no doubt. Googlords?) which works with a combination of local and remote storage options. These are the various threads they may very well be weaving to take computing full circle, from mainframes accessed by dumb terminals to the PC era back to mainframes (though now in the guise of ‘cloud computing’) accessed by smart terminals. However, it’s going to be like one gigantic earth-sized mainframe.
Hey maybe when everything gets socialized as capitalism crumbles around us, maybe we’ll all own the cloud one day! hooray!