Google's Schmidt Predicts the End of the Internet (as You Know It)

[[Coi] Mr.CLuBBeR]

"The Internet will disappear" - Eric Schmidt

Could you imagine if the suits in charge at Google one day decided that enough was enough, and pulled the plug on all of the company's services, like Gmail and search? While it wouldn't be the end of the Internet, it would certainly be a major inconvenience for many. However, that's not what Google's Eric Schmidt meant when he recently predicted that that the Internet would disappear. So, what was he talking about?
Schmidt was asked at the end of a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, for his prediction on the future of the web.
"I will answer very simply that the Internet will disappear," Schmidt said, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "There will be so many IP addresses...so many devices, sensors, things that you are wearing, things that you are interacting with that you won't even sense it. It will be part of your presence all the time."
He's really talking about the evolution of the Internet. He gives a somewhat vague example of walking into a room "and with your permission and all that, you are interacting with the things going on in the room." Maybe you'll be wearing a HoloLens or perhaps your room will be filled with IoT devices. Either way, Schmidt essentially sees the Internet becoming less of a conscious thing, though we think that will go right out the window the first time your ISP suffers an outage.
Schmidt also sees a great opportunity for tech firms to take advantage of the changing landscape, though he doesn't believe it will come at the expense of jobs. To the contrary, Schmidt said that for every job created in the tech sector, there will be seven non-technology jobs that open up.
You can watch the 1-hour discussion here (scroll down).
Follow Paul on Google+, Twitter, and Facebook


More...