[Enlightened1]

So the Control Freaks hope.

They hate the Internet because it’s exposing their criminal behavior that they could easily hide in the past.

[tet68]

Riiight, just like the dictatorship of the Proletariat.

[jpl]

Schmidt is one evil, nasty SOB. I shudder to think about the plots and schemes that probably go through that guy’s head on a typical day.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Not if we back it up on floppy discs.

[mountn man]

[Lazamataz]

The headline in no way resembles the content.

[CharleysPride]

It already has in my home.
(this is an echo-—)

[mountn man]

[bgill]

Algore is saddened.

[vetvetdoug]

If the affirmative action President has his way and the Internet is taxed and regulated by the government, it will disappear.

[jjsheridan5]

I always go under the rule of thumb that we tend to greatly overestimate what will be done in the short run, and greatly underestimate what will be done in the long run. I don’t think the interesting future he describes will occur for decades, but when it does, it will far exceed our current expectations. The short run will be dominated by less impressive, but in many ways more important, changes to the foundation level of computing.

[Zathras]

I think Google is going to try and become the ATT of the Internet.
This is why Obama is pushing the new security laws.

[VanDeKoik]

Just make a new one.

[longtermmemmory]

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

ignorance is strength.

big brother loves you

[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.

[WinMod70]

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

[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.

[Jim Robinson]

You have reached the end of the internet.