Google Chairman predicts ‘The Internet will disappear’

Google chairman Eric Schmidt recently predicted that the Internet would so proliferate society that it would in effect ‘disappear’.

There was once a time when the Internet was an obdurate highway on which to connect. You had to endure a series of clicks and dials just to connect to an information avenue that could download a picture to your phone in about the time it will take you to read this entire piece.

Sometimes you even had to disconnect your phone to get on the web. “Sorry, grandma, but this AOL mail won’t check it itself,” we said in 1998.

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Now connecting to the Internet has become such a breeze we hardly consider the process, whether it be a connection via a home computer or our phone. That’s the process that Google chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt would call the disappearance of the Internet, something he predicted will occur in full for our society some time in the near future.

“I will answer very simply that the internet will disappear,” Schmidt said when ask about the future of the Internet, per Business Insider. “There will be so many IP addresses … so many devices, sensors, things that you are wearing, things that you are interacting with that you won’t even sense it. 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.”

Let’s get real though, Eric. It’s not like I can just flip up some mobile device and view anything I see on my phone on my large, flat-screen television. It’s not like that television already comes with Internet capability and–OH GOD MAKE FOR THE BUNKER.

We are surrounded by the Internet now and it’s those who keep the service optimal that seem to have this process pegged. Our connection to each other truly is an invisible thread that’s always right there, ready to be tapped into thanks to satellite services that keep us connected to our email and social media accounts at all times.

As our devices become more and more tailored to servicing you with the Internet as a side feature, Schmidt’s words prove more and more prophetic. The Internet is here to stay and soon enough it will proliferate every aspect of your life to such an extent that we won’t even know it’s there.

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