Future of the Presentation Layer - NOW

Communication is defined and implemented by protocols that adopt a stacked, or layered,  model.   The standard framework, the ISO model, we have the presentation layer.
You could say this has evolved from

1. Teletype printout,    with input from punched-paper-cards,   to
2. Teletype VDU,     with input from keyboards,    to
3. Basic texts / graphics markup served up on web-pages,    with input from keyboards and mice,
   
             Frustration with the  http service model, not providing a very good interactive experience,
   
   
4. The promise of that concept / combination of technologies, "AJAX".
5. Hear ye, hear ye.   Waves and the GWT is comming!

Internet presentation is not going to be the same again

If you haven't' seen the Google Wave Developer Preview video, you must.  The presentation layer is not going to be the same again.  Our expectations of internet based applications, is never going to be the same again.

Goodbye email; Hello Waves

Also, email is not going to be the same again.  email was never very collaborative.  It's store-and-forward infrastructure was always clunky.  Moving email to the web, as webmail, the first killer cloud application, was a great improvement.  No delivery to my workstation was necessary, and it was available anywhere on the internet.  And it was early software-as-a-service.  They kept improving it for me, and I didn't need to install anything.  Great.  email has taken such a great leap forward with waves, Google have rightly changed it name.  I strongly believe that when I adopt waves (hopefully in the next few months) I will never use anything else.  I have been using web-mail for some time, and Google's is integrating better and better with their other systems. Waves/GWT will replace googlemail, and will be the hub of integration for many other applications.  I even think it will become a new platform in itself.  If not, the concept and technologies in Waves/GWT will be migrated to other vendor offerings.   In any case, well done Google for finally engineering a better internet architecture instead of knocking up another small scale concept application.  The world has hundreds of those.  What we have needed is the infrastructure of the internet re-engineering, and Google has delivered.