Is Google Wave an Attempt to Take Over the World?

After watching the video demo of Google Wave, it's hard not to think of it as an elaborate plot with the inevitable goal of world domination. I know, I know, we've been programmed to think of Hulu as the evil-doers, but the first rule of world domination is obfuscation. It's all about misdirection using crazy videos so you can secretly put out the next killer app that goes viral and brings you step by step closer to taking over the world.

And mark my words, Google Wave is built from the ground up to go viral. Not only is it a pretty cool tool that combines the best of email, instant messaging, media sharing and wikis together in an interface that actually mashes them together rather than simply giving access to the different components, but it comes with an API that makes it extremely mobile. That's right, as soon as this Wave is released, we're going to see it gushing onto blog posts and social networking profiles.

It is also a multi-pronged effort at world domination. Not only is it a cool tool, but it will also put pressure on adopting certain standards into HTML 5, like the ability to drag documents into the browser and the ability to have multi-threaded web documents that can actually let the client do many things at once.

But the main thing most people are going to care about is the tool itself. Yep, that's world domination at its finest -- making people care about things like entertainment and communication and productivity and all the while you are really just making them addicted to the evil designs of the engineering department. We can't even hope for Google Wave to pull a Knol and all-but-disappear after a hyped release.

Nope, this thing looks way too combustable to disappear.

In fact, it is best described as "everything you always wanted in Twitter plus everything you never thought to ask for all combined into one nice little real-time tool." Yep, we're talking real time as in seeing people type in their message while six people are concurrently editing the same document and holding little mini-discussions in attached threads.

Is Google Wave a Twitter killer? I don't know about that. There's something to be said for simple tools with a specific purpose. But Google Wave has so many interesting uses and is built to be so viral that I wouldn't be surprised if the buzz meter on it reaches the same height as the current Twitter buzz.

But the real question is: What the heck are we going to call a tweet? Will it now be a drip?

And perhaps that is the very question they want us to be pondering while they carry out their evil little plan.

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