In Gear Mesh I said
Google Gears will eventually make a dramatic change in the economics of the web – probably in ways Google may not have really anticipated. … Now that the genie is out of the bottle people will look to deploy other database servers locally …
David Van Couvering meshes these thoughts up with a fascinating scenario in which local storage combined with iTunes/Bonjour based zero-configuration networking enables people
…to build and use massive, secure, Internet-based data collaboration applications and services without ever putting a single byte of their data on Google’s servers.
Ouch.
Google Gears