Google CEO: The Future of the Internet....all good!

The Atlantic Monthly, after an interview with the CEO of Google, provides a valuable insight into where the ubiquitous search engine sees things going:

"For the last few years, Google has not only taken over the Internet and become synonymous the search for information, but also the company has become a not-insignificant obsession for The Atlantic, and the subject of binary feature pieces -- "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" and "Is Google Making Us Smart?" In an interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, James Fallows didn't ask him to choose between the headlines, but rather to elaborate on how Google was changing our lives.

And elaborate Schmidt did. In the calm and fluent tone of a philosophy professor delivering a well-recited lecture, Schmidt explained how the Internet and computer revolution had only just begun.

According to Moore's Law, Schmidt began, "in 10 years every computer device you use will be 100 times cheaper or 100 times faster." That means, he said, that even more than today, computers will be able to do things they're very good at (like remembering things) and people will be able to do things they're very good at (like communicating and making decisions). "And so eventually we'll all sort of settle down to a new world where all these people have mobile devices. You have all of the world's information ... in your hands."

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