Companies such as Google and its competitors (but especially and specifically Google) are fast becoming the IT infrastructure or service provider to the entire world.  Just about everyone you know has at least a Gmail or Hotmail account (or AOL, Yahoo!, whatever).  Some of us use multiple services from multiple providers.  Many of us are entirely reliant on one or more of these services, in both our business and personal lives.
I haven’t even begun to think through the implications of this, but hasn’t Google (like some key financial institutions) become “too big to (be allowed to) fail”?

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