By
James
Hirsen
Eric Schmidt is the former software
engineer who rose to become executive chairman of Google. Schmidt recently
spoke to the top political, business, and financial minds gathered together at
the World Economic Forum. The global event was held at the fashionable Swiss
municipality of Davos.
Schmidt’s speech carried a
prediction regarding the Internet, that being the World Wide Web as we know it
is essentially destined to fade to black. Responding to a question about the Web’s
future, Schmidt said, "I will answer very simply that the Internet will
disappear."
The vanishing Net to which Schmidt
refers is not the death of the Web per say, but rather the notion that the
Internet of the future will so extensively permeate our lives, it will
effectively be subsumed into life’s backdrop. In other words, it is Schmidt’s
contention that in due time, people will no longer be consciously aware of the
actual presence of the Internet. [more...]
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