Google Warns the Internet Will Disappear

The Chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, thinks "the Internet will disappear," but don’t panic, as his words shouldn’t be taken too literally. Schmidt was speaking at the World Economic Forum is Davos, Switzerland when he made the prediction which has spawned countless misleading headlines, including our own.

Rather than suggesting the Internet will one day go the way of the dinosaurs, Schmidt was predicting that the Internet will "become so ubiquitous that you won’t even notice it." How? By way of the Internet of Things, and how more devices are becoming "smart" every day.


Schmidt further explained, "It will be part of your presence all the time. Imagine you walk into a room, and the room is dynamic. And with your permission and all of that, you are interacting with the things going on in the room. A highly personalized, highly interactive and very, very interesting world emerges."

Indeed it does, and at that point the Internet is likely to become less of a service we connect to and more of an omnipresence punctuating every part of our lives. And Google plans to be right at the center of this new reality.

So, if you’re worried about privacy, security, and anonymity now just wait until Schmidt’s future comes to pass.

Source: makeuseof