In fact, the plan is for Google to make PC’s, as we know them, obsolete. If Google is successful, you will throw away your hard drive and use a Google Drive, or GDrive.
This will allow you to access your computer from any internet connection.
However, if you think this will be wonderful - think again.
Industry critics warn of danger in giving the internet leader more power.
The GDrive concept would give the online behemoth unprecedented control over individuals' personal data.
It is seen as a paradigm shift away from Microsoft's Windows operating system, which runs inside most of the world's computers, in favor of "cloud computing", where the processing and storage is done thousands of miles away in remote data centers.
Many PC users are already using web-based services such as Hotmail and Gmail for e-mail and Flickr and Piasca for digital photo storage.
The loss of a laptop or crash of a hard drive does not jeopardize the data because it is regularly saved in "the cloud" and can be accessed via the web from any machine.
The PC would be a simpler, cheaper device acting as a portal to the web, perhaps via an adaptation of Google's operating system for mobile phones, Android. Users would think of their computer as software rather than hardware.
However, it should matter to you that someone can see all your data!
It also should matter that Google could be subpoenaed at any time to hand over all your data to the United States government and possibly without your knowledge!
The head of product and marketing for Google Enterprise, said: There's a clear direction ... away from people thinking, 'This is my PC, this is my hard drive,' to 'This is how I interact with information, this is how I interact with the web.'
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