Response to "Google plans to make PCs history"

This article I read is centered upon the GDrive that is being developed by Google. This program would allow anyone to access their personal information from any computer in the world. Instead of using the microsoft windows operating system, all information would be saved on a huge server owned by Google. This could be both good and bad for consumers, and as such is the object of much debate.

Behind this idea lies two schools of thought toward it. GDrive could be beneficial because of the ease of access, less hassle involved in it, and overall would help to prevent data loss due to computer errors or crashes. GDrive could also be bad because everything is stored by Google, and if anything happened to that server then all of our information would be lost as well. Also, there is a certain amount of privacy lost because everything would be ran under Google's nose. Anything could be turned over to the government to be used as seen fit.

I personally like the idea of being able to access my computer from any computer; however, I also see some of the disadvantages to this approach. Not only would it give the multinational corporation more power, it would be most likely a violation of our rights. Ultimately, I believe that the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.