Yostivanich

We're plan­ning to build and test ultra high-speed broad­band net­works in a small num­ber of trial loca­tions across the United States. We'll deliver Inter­net speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Amer­i­cans have access to today with 1 giga­bit per sec­ond, fiber-to-the-home con­nec­tions. We plan to offer ser­vice at a com­pet­i­tive price to at least 50,000 and poten­tially up to 500,000 people.

via Offi­cial Google Blog: Think big with a gig: Our exper­i­men­tal fiber net­work. More awe­some­ness then I can pos­si­bly imag­ine about this.

A few major thoughts however:

1. Google as an ISP would retain a ton more data than they already do, in fact every­thing that I do via the web or an inter­net based ser­vice they could har­vest and collect.
2. It also gives them a lot of power over my abil­ity to surf the web. This is both a good and bad thing, they say they will make the web truly neu­tral, but they could also insert adver­tis­ing on top of every page that I see.
3. 1GB inter­net speed changes the idea of what you can do with the inter­net and makes the idea of real cloud-computing (dumb ter­mi­nals with just a mon­i­tor, key­board, mouse and an inter­net con­nec­tion) a viable thought for most people.