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The fact that computing power will double over the next 18 months or so doesn’t matter to me that much any more. In fact it’s been a while since it has mattered to most of us. A few years ago the difference between a 150 mhz processor and a 300 mhz was enough to make even the most luddite word processor drool, now the difference between 1ghz and 2ghz doesn’t make anyone except the most avid gamer shiver with anticipation.

Now we have the computing power what are we going to do with it?

“Instead of stuffing more technology down its customers’ throats, the IT industry must help them to use its wares to become more productive. That might be termed Google’s law, after the popular web-search engine that owes much of its success to concentrating on its users.”

For even more proof that google will take over the world one service at a time take a look at froogle.com.

This is a quote from an interesting economist article about how Moore’s law is running out of steam (Moore, the co founder of intel suggested in the early 70’s that computing power (number of transistors fitting a silicon chip) would double every 18 months).