Google Chairman Eric Schmidt: "The Internet Will Disappear"

Hollywood Reporter ^ | January 22, 2015 | Georg Szalai

[MeshugeMikey]

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt on Thursday predicted the end of the Internet as we know it.

At the end of a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland where his comments were webcast, he was asked for his prediction on the future of the Web. “I will answer very simply that the Internet will disappear,” Schmidt said.

[MeshugeMikey]

a sort of Obama like article.....

[stephenjohnbanker]

” Schmidt is one evil, nasty SOB”

We be done here!

[MeshugeMikey]

dnt worry be happy Revrunt Sharpton ....will doubtless step forward and MIRACULOUSLY Save the Internet...

[Pollster1]

Not if we back it up on floppy discs.

I have a whole stack of 5 1/2 inch floppy discs. I can get started on the backup if I have a little warning.

[MeshugeMikey]

much of our land mass will disappear.....if it comes to that....

[VanDeKoik]

Just make a new one.

[George from New England]

I got 8 inch ones, I’ll leave you in the dust!

[MeshugeMikey]

Im sure we can count on Revrunt Sharpton to Miraculously Reconstruct the net we have now

Yes He Can!

for details.. please see post 23,.. this thread

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3249623/posts?page=23#23

[longtermmemmory]

IOW because the beltway elitists can’t control it they will end it.

ignorance is strength.

big brother loves you

[MeshugeMikey]

Net “Nueterality” must be defeated at all costs..

[Regulator]

Eric Schmidt?

The Klown who drowned Novell?

The figurehead who got booted out of Google?

That Eric Schmidt?

He needs to count his billions and be happy that so many friends in high places kept him employed.

[TexasGunLover]

You are correct. Within 500 years greater than 50% of the earth's population will be biometrically connected to each other via technology and what we know of today as the "internet".

Barring an extinction level event, it's a fact.

[lightman]

5 1/4s should do the trick.

[WinMod70]

I knew all along that this internet thing was just a fad.

[tophat9000]

I’ll beat your 8 inch with my 16 inch pizza box drive...

[wally_bert]

I found a stack of 10 inch floppy discs in a cabinet. First I have seen.

[jjsheridan5]

Since you raised the 500 year time-frame, I think the biggest impact will be from 3d printing combined with nano-technology. There are a massive number of problems yet to deal with, ranging from design methodology to material recycling to material creation, etc. But the impact will, IMHO, be greater than the wheel, fire, agriculture, and bacon, combined. It will completely revolutionize what we do with our lives, in a way that no other technology can. Or, at least until the Islamic “moderates” discover that they can kill everybody with this technology (that, like so many others, they played no role in creating).

[discostu]

Before people go silly they should read it. He’s not saying it’s going to go away, he’s saying it’s going to be so ubiquitous it’ll be like air. “Disappear” in more the “turn invisible” sense, we’ll no longer decide it’s time to do internet type stuff, it’ll just be in our fabric, you’ll do things and they’ll involve the internet and you won’t even notice that they do.

[Moonman62]

If anyone bothers to read the article, they’ll see that Schmidt is actually saying the opposite. He’s saying the Internet will be so ubiquitous that people will take it for granted.

[I want the USA back]

Stupid pronouncement. If he means it will change, he should have said that.