1. Sergey should go back and read his computing history – Nathan Myhrvold (former CTO of Microsoft and a legitimate physicist) declared the same law in a better turned phrase back in the 90's: software is a gas, it expands to fill whatever container it is stored in. And he expounded more explicitly on this phenomenon of software complexity – which leads to slowness – in his speech on “The Next 50 Years of Software” to the ACM: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/00067... where he explained that the demands of software are exactly what has enabled Moore's law. The link to his presentation is here: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/siliconv...

And a webshow (way prior to YouTube) is here: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/siliconv...

Google is great and all, but Myhrvold owns that law.

2. As for building faster applications on the same hardware? Of course you can do that when the network is the computer. This was Larry Ellison's mantra back in the late 90's also. So when the browser largely becomes the OS then this is certainly feasible. There's no science fiction involved. It's just making the PC the dumb terminal.

1. Sergey should go back and read his computing history – Nathan Myhrvold (former CTO of Microsoft and a legitimate physicist) declared the same law in a better turned phrase back in the 90's: software is a gas, it expands to fill whatever container it is stored in. And he expounded more explicitly on this phenomenon of software complexity – which leads to slowness – in his speech on “The Next 50 Years of Software” to the ACM: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/00067... where he explained that the demands of software are exactly what has enabled Moore's law. The link to his presentation is here: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/siliconv...

And a webshow (way prior to YouTube) is here: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/siliconv...

Google is great and all, but Myhrvold owns that law.

2. As for building faster applications on the same hardware? Of course you can do that when the network is the computer. This was Larry Ellison's mantra back in the late 90's also. So when the browser largely becomes the OS then this is certainly feasible. There's no science fiction involved. It's just making the PC the dumb terminal.