Mobile=local

At the Brite conference, I talked about mobile coming to be synonymous with local. Here are a few paragraphs I wrote on the topic for an essay in a German book about the future of the net:

The biggest battlefield is local and mobile (I combine them because soon, local will mean simply wherever you are now). That's why Google is in the phone business and the mapping business and why it is working hard to let us search by speaking or even by taking pictures so we don't have to type while...