The examined life, the memex, the Google desktop

I've showed my blog writing class Google Desktop, and encouraged them to try it out. I've been waiting for a tool this good. How about you, reader?

Think it's time to reflect on your personal use of your personal computing system? Install the Google desktop, run a few searches infomed by your own sense of the themes, ideas, and images that preoccupy your hours at the keyboard, compare these with Googling the open Web for similar themes, ideas, and images, and comment on your findings either here or at home in your own blog.

How does this tool change things now?

How does it fit into Vannevar Bush's (1945) idea of a "memex"?

How will our near and far future be changed by the ubiquivailabilty of these tools?

Here's one of many recent reviews, from the O'Reilly Network.