In early December 2009, Google changed everything. Matt Cutts described the new Google Search Event, or the Future briefly on his Googler blog. A meeting was held for interested parties (that should have been everyone on Earth) in Mountain View, California. Several Google employees spoke their way through slide shows which outlined the way Google is changing.

And, that changing will affect, well… everything. Simply everything.

As we write this and as you are reading it only minutes, hours, days or weeks later, a silent explosion is taking place all around the world. Perhaps we should call it an implosion.

Information, together with the way we access it and communicate with each other about it, is changing.

Only a few years ago, Google didn’t exist.  A few years before that, today’s all present Internet didn’t exist. Now we are on the edge of an even bigger change.

Today’s Internet involves mainly text, images, video, audio and connections between those media.

Tomorrow’s Internet will involve mainly connections. The process will supercede its elements. The connecting will overwhelm the things being connected.

Previously, content was king. Soon, connections will be king. The saying “content is king” will become “connecting is king.”

Think about that. The way you connect will be more important that what you are connecting to. Usually.

And, the company making this happen is Google. Or, it will be Google if Google has anything to say about it.

And, they do. Read this report from Danny Sullivan over at SearchEngineLand.com. As an attendee of the Google conference on December 7, Sullivan details the many ways your future will have changed in a year or two or three. We’ve had libraries and indexed libraries for about 500 years. We’ve had shelves full of video tapes for a couple decades. We’ve had hard drives and flash drives with MP3′s and compressed videos for maybe 5 years or so.

Now, we’ll have a way to search these filing systems. And, we won’t have to type searches into keywords to do it. We’ll be able to speak our requests into a laptop microphone, or show the new Google an image or set of images, and ask it to find similar images by their content, by what the  images are displaying. Video will be next. Similar videos can be located by selecting a sample to search from.

And, we’ll be able to see and hear reports of search results anywhere, in real time, and for any location or region, limited by almost anything you can imagine.

Boomers can remember endless days spent in a university or city library, building lists of references by pulling index cards out of a long row of tiny filing cabinets. Then, larger libraries began to use computer terminals. Today even the smallest library uses computers. No more filing cabinets filled with hundreds of thousands of 4×6″ or 3×5″ cards. Everything is connected by wires and magnetic storage.

Tomorrow’s library has completely disappeared. Not only are the cabinets gone. Soon the library themselves will be gone. What will be left?

The world will be a giant ball of connections. Everything connected to everything else. Everything findable. Everything locatable. Everything connected… to everyone.

In every language.

In every media.

In every place.

Throughout all time.

And, as this process has started, it seems that nothing will stop it. We have seen the future. And, it is Google.