Here’s a set of comparisons between the big G and things from the book Snow Crash:
- Google Earth: CIC Earth
- Google Base: The library’s upload / buy system
- Google Sketchup: A 3-D editor for the Metaverse’s real estate concept
What next? Take a look at Second Life, and the talk they gave at Google NY — I’m not quite sure of the implementation itself, but this does seem like the next piece in the Snow crash puzzle.
... and then we’ll soon have Google merging with the Library of Congress, and Yahoo, Amazon, MS, and eBay merging with the mafia, and the picture will be complete.