I think it might be impossible for Google Wave to live up to the hype at this point. The problem with declaring something is revolutionary or will change the In

I think it might be impossible for Google Wave to live up to the hype at this point. The problem with declaring something is revolutionary or will change the Internet as we know it (blah blah) is those choices are made by massive numbers of users at a grassroots level. You can't just say hey, this is great, you should stop using all the tools you're content with because it's technically better. It doesn't work that way. I'm positive it will be a useful tool to a certain group of people but it doesn't pass my "will my Mom be using this in 3 years?" test. It doesn't even come close. Google should have probably kept this one under wraps until they were ready for a pretty good public beta. Announcing it so far ahead of time creates an environment where lots of people want to project lots of different ideas on top of it without any understanding yet of how people may actually want to use the service.