Thomas L. Friedman asks the question. He quotes Alan Cohen as saying:

"If I can operate Google, I can find anything. And with wireless, it means I will be able to find anything, anywhere, anytime. Which is why I say that Google, combined with Wi-Fi, is a little bit like God. God is wireless, God is everywhere and God sees and knows everything. Throughout history, people connected to God without wires. Now, for many questions in the world, you ask Google, and increasingly, you can do it without wires, too."

Friedman also talks to Robert Wright, who comments on how Google can be used to mobilize communities, especially as more users get broadband. Video, Wright says, will make the Internet an even more powerful persuasive medium.

Link courtesy of Kara Kerwin.