• San Francisco Chronicle, Monday, October 4, 2010 12:22 PM

Your days are numbered, lag time! Google is working on the "instantaneous Internet," or what The San Francisco Chronicle calls "an experience every bit as immediate as traditional media." According to Bill Coughran, SVP of engineering at Google, "Browsing should actually feel like flipping the pages of a magazine ... The Web, in general, is very far away from that." Why this obsession with the immediate?

According to The Chronicle, "Google believes that the more it can turbocharge its products, and the Internet itself, the more people will search, surf, watch videos, download music and engage in other activities that will become possible as the Web breaks new speed barriers." Stateside, the capacity of average Internet connections has increased by more than 74 times since 1996, due in large part to connection upgrades. However, the sheer amount of content being uploaded to the Web has largely negated the fast connections.

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