Come on... don't say like this. Google will never stop ranking the sites so please don't bother and keep your works on dear.
i have to agree with a poster above, i use googles tool bar solely for the PR indicator and im sure more than .01% do also.
It may happen you can have some new funda's in future for G PR. But it will never discarded by G. cz it's the one of algo of Google SEO.
Really? I'm in a college dorm and just asked 4 people down the hall. Not one of them knew what the hell it was. The closest I got was someone that confused it with a secure certificate lock sign.