Google Wave (see Google Wave first reactions and links and comments) has clearly wowed a lot of people and this in itself is important. Assuming that a combination of the technology and the excitement turns it into the The Next Big Thing that in itself is world-changing. So I’ll assume that it will happen and will sweep the public face of the internet. Nothing is really new and we can find these ideas in Ted Nelson, TimBL and others. But the added features are: there is an engineering co