Google Is About To Take Over Your Whole Life, And You Won't Even Notice

[Commentary] Google had just announced a new initiative called Material Design that promised to unify all Google products (and even third-party Android apps) under a common UX tongue. Google seemed to be morphing into something, but what?

With Material Design, Google has become a second reality inside touch-screen devices -- complete with its own rules of logic and physics -- and if Google has its way, it will eventually break free of touch screens to quite literally reshape the world around us. It's a series of services that have become our digital infrastructure.

And in the very near future, Google will exist, not as something you need to understand as "Chrome" or "Android," but as a conduit of information that's on just the right screen at just the right time.

[Wilson started Philanthroper.com]