Andy Rubin, father of Google's Android operating system, waxed ecstatic about the future of mobile computing in a blog post Sept. 19.

The post, timed to whet users' appetites ahead of the introduction of the first Android-based smart phone by Google and T-Mobile in New York Sept. 23, is getting little play in the blogosphere.

Google watchers are probably tuckered out from the series of prognosticating blog posts Google has pumped out since Marissa Mayer blogged exhaustively on the future of search. However, I think it's important to pay attention to Rubin with the Android Dream so close at hand.  

Though Rubin doesn't mention the keywords Android or T-Mobile once, I choose to read his communiqué as a gimlet-eyed indicator of what we can expect from phones and other mobile devices based on Android, as well as phones from Nokia, Apple and Microsoft, in the next decade.
 

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