Google Maps Navigation, Google Music Search and a Google View of the Internet in Five Years

This will possibly be the end of GPS companies such as Garmin and Tom Tom (their stocks have already plummeted since the announcement):

Google also announced that soon, any search for a song or band will result in a stream of the song being returned from various partners which will be able to be played in full once and then will revert to a 30-second clip on subsequent listens (similar to what you get from the iTunes store.)

If that's not enough of the future is now, here's an interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt talking about what the Internet will be like in five years . (via MetaFilter and I always want to add “which has lots of additional good discussion – but you already know that, right?)

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