But I think we’re in general agreement. You’re right to say that you can “…use Wave with my coworkers and wife as long as they understand it.” All I’m arguing is that it is going to take a lot longer for that broad understanding to manifest itself than many of us tech-savvy people might care to admit.

I have my doubts. Even though the demos showed a lot of social scenarios (let’s go shopping) I think the real power of Wave is when it’s applied to collaborative work processes. That type of collaboration will take much longer to permeate.

Don’t get me wrong – I’m not questioning the sheer brilliance of Wave. Heck, I rushed to put my name down as a beta tester. But I think Wave is going to take a long time to create a “new normal” in digital collaboration for the simple fact that it’s so disruptive.

And calendaring breaks down completely if you don’t have total participation. I can use Wave with my coworkers and wife as long as they understand it. And then as soon as my mom figures out at least how to reply, I can use it with her too. And then when someone else figures it out, they’re in too. And if this was an embedded Wave, _we_ could be using it. Wave could be very incremental, not like calendaring at all.

I’m absolutely sure you’re right about Wave getting any sort of traction in the enterprise world.

Is it likely to be interesting in the social world (or social media) to be more precise?

Email did take forty years – led by the corporate world – but Facebook and Twitter only took two years – led by the social world.

Steve