Resistance is Futile - Google Network In The Works?

Is there a Google Network coming? This via CNET:

"Citing unidentified sources, the report notes that Google has been looking to hire people who can negotiate dark-fiber contracts and purchase telecommunications interconnection facilities in New York. It reportedly is buying shipping containers to create mobile data centers and is also rumored to be planning a PC, the "Google Cube," that would offer interactive content from a variety of sources.

"A leading content provider, who did not wish to be named, told Times Online, 'We are in discussions with Google to provide content for their alternative Internet service, to be distributed through their Google Cube product,'" the article said. "However, industry insiders fear that the development of a network of Google Cubes, powered over a Google-owned Internet network, will greatly increase the power that Google wields over online publishers and Internet users."

It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether Google will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the ants..I mean, Google, networks, cubes, blocks, etc. will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new Google overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted Internet personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.

Related: For more Google overlord goodness, check out the Google Cheat Sheet and the Google Quiz.