The Future of Google Fuchsia

Google is keeping quiet for a very good reason

The mystery begins to clear…

Google has said very little about the upcoming Fuchsia OS. We know that it's an OS designed for every device with IoT in mind, and the reason is obvious: the end of 2021 will see nearly 46 billion connected devices in the computing ecosystem. Now that is an absolutely colossal market. Once again, Google is in the right place at the right time.

Scope

But is it just IoT and smart devices?

This has also been mentioned in plans to replace Chrome OS and Android, two of the biggest players in Google’s offerings.

But the conspiracy theorist in me says ‘Suppose it was more than Chrome OS and Android? Suppose Google plans to in the long term to completely eliminate Windows, Apple and paid OSes by offering an OS to their customers that was better, integrated with every device they had, has an amazing UX/UI feature than either macOS or Windows and it was offered free of cost?’

Now that?is a whole new ball game!

Possible Future Scenarios

Google rolls out Fuchsia, puts all its smart devices on Fuchsia, introduces Fuchsia for?mobile, laptop, and desktop,?offering a seamless experience across devices with every device the customer has, and the latest interface technologies?

Microsoft attempted this with the .NET Core and UWP. Microsoft tried to sell its devices as a seamless offering (Continuum) across every device you own. It didn’t work. Why??Cost!

In the era of open-source software, Microsoft has still yet to understand that free is the new normal — that with a massive user base, there are an infinite number of ways to monetize your product, as long as adoption is in the tens of thousands. And now adoption rates are in the millions!

If Google releases Fuchsia for all platforms, provides support for all its native services and even includes support for Windows apps (think WINE for Linux), it will have delivered. Microsoft tried the seamless approach with UWP. Now Google is trying it with Fuchsia and there is every sign that it will succeed.

By open-sourcing Fuchsia, Google has already endeared itself to the millions of Linux users that already dominate server markets. The system, as far as I can see it, will become a complete overhaul of the software we have.

Imagine this…

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5 years into the future.

You wake up. Check your Google Fuchsia phone for messages and todos. You are reminded that you are short of milk in your refrigerator (also running Fuchsia). You order delivery of milk by a drone (also running Fuchsia) to your fridge, with the exact customization that you love, that you grew up with.

You then hit the gym. All devices are put on do not disturb mode and your favorite songs are streaming as you work out. You finish your workout, attach Google Glass-clone to your head (which runs Google Fuchsia). The Google Assistant?(come on, Google, make it human! Give it a name!)?briefs you on your schedule and meetings and pending work. You check your children’s phones (which also run on Google Fuchsia) remotely and have complete control over them. You then spend some fun time with your kids talking geeky stuff (which, by then, will be massive fun). And then you head for work.

Your check your inbox while on the commute?(I’m divided, I want WFH but some work can only be done together)?and you memorize the solutions to the bugs that your <Coding AI Tool> identified and rectified. You approve, the AI tool heads to your work server (running Google Fuchsia), and your walk into your office fully refreshed and with a zero bug tally.

During the day, some people in Japan want your help with Japanese NLP.?(AI, of course, is a foundational skill, and it is taught in that the same way all CS beginners worldwide learn C as a first coding language.)?You log on to their system (running Google Fuchsia) and perform the specialized work they need. You are paid instantly in crypto.

Then, you get an alert from an advanced AI bot you use to monitor your kids' internet activities. Your 6-year old kid is starting to stumble on some porn in a game that he’s playing on Google Playstation (which is also running Google Fuchsia). You have an immediate video call, tell him why not to do things like that at his age, and the AI assistant takes over from there.?(Of course, all this works so easily because it's the same OS everywhere and everything is connected).

Your Google Watch (running Google Fuchsia — duh) tells you the day is over and its time to head home. You order your dinner that is made by a 3-D printer which also runs on Google Fuchsia. And its steaming and hot by the exact time that you reach home. You inform your wife that ‘expect fun stuff’ tonight by alerting her Google Glass Fuchsia device (obviously you can’t say that in front of the kids). You have your dinner. And start on some ‘fun stuff’ — which is, remarkably, the only activity of the day that your Google Fuchsia system does not monitor or track — unless you want it to, in a no-children environment.

I Think You Get The Picture

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Now that is just an average user. A superuser who today, has a Linux, Android, and Windows 11 system operating today will easily understand the far-reaching potential and the far-reaching implications of a technology stack like this one.?It could be the greatest innovation in computing to date after Linux.

There are thousands and thousands of use cases. This could become very big, very fast.

In one way, I want it to happen. I love Dart and Flutter with VelocityX . So could this be a serious future? I really believe that it will be, yes. And that is the secret strategy Google will use to dominate the IT field. Even servers can run Google Fuchsia. Engineers have learned from the mistakes made in building Linux and iOS/Android. This could be the product that blows everyone else out of the water.

Alternatives?

If you are a non-Google employee reading this — well — join Google! Of course, this future assumes that quantum computers remain in the NISQ era, that we haven’t achieved AGI, and that there is no looming apocalypse for the human race in that time.

In fact, if we do achieve AGI, I do believe that humanity will be the inferior life form on the planet. And we know evolution. Superior species take over. Inferior species become extinct.

Conclusion

All of this is speculation. I have no connection to Google, I don’t do hacking that’s illegal and this is just a pet theory of mine. It could happen. That’s why I’ve written this article. This is one possibility. Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, NetFlix, IBM — you need to stop — think —and innovate. Nothing else will prevent this scenario playing out when the protagonist is a company like Google.

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One OS to rule them all, One OS to better them.

One OS to bring them all and in the convergence replace them?

All of them?

(With apologies to J. R. R. Tolkien and LOTR fans)

Hm.

The future will be — interesting.