David Carr on Google’s Ubiquity

David Carr, media writer at the Times, has written a great piece describing the ubiquity of Google and its various products. He got it right.

Some highlights:

Having grown up in the vapor trail of the ’60s, I learned to be wary of large, centralized organizations, and yet Google, a huge enterprise with a market value of $80 billion, is my ever-present wingman.

It’s not the first video chatting that I have done, only the first that actually worked well. Within minutes of downloading, I was talking live on my PC to my 11-year-old daughter on a Mac, a process that in the past would have involved everything short of splitting the atom. Then I told my twins away at college and yes, my mother-in-law about it, and before long we were all chatting away in an easy, friction-free future.

Score another one for the Googleplex.

Googleplex? Damn, I may have to take that from him.

X-posted at Human Potential.