Google CEO Eric Schmidt on the Future of the Web and More
Google CEO Eric Schmidt projects a much different internet in five years, with extensive Chinese sites/ content + social media, concentrated over high speed broadband in real time. Today and for the future, figuring out how to rank real-time social content is “the great challenge of the age,” Schmidt said at last week’s Gartner symposium in Orlando.
Highlighted comments include:
- Five years from now the internet will be dominated by Chinese-language content.
- Today’s teenagers are the model of how the web will work in five years – they jump from app to app to app seamlessly.
- Five years is a factor of ten in Moore’s Law, meaning that computers will be capable of far more by that time than they are today.
- Within five years there will be broadband well above 100MB in performance – and distribution distinctions between TV, radio and the web will go away.
- “We’re starting to make significant money off of Youtube”, content will move towards more video.
- “Real time information is just as valuable as all the other information, we want it included in our search results.”
- There are many companies beyond Twitter and Facebook doing real time.
- “We can index real-time info now – but how do we rank it?”
- It’s because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional sources. Learning how to rank that “is the great challenge of the age.” Schmidt believes Google can solve that problem.
I don’t doubt that we will move more and more towards video in the future. I wonder at some point if tv will meld into a one unit media system that does everything you need.
I guess I will have to find some teenagers to shadow, because I could use more advice on how to jump from app to app seamlessly. Interesting, thanks Erik.
My pleasure!
At Davos last year, the lead technical officer for Microsoft offered remarks on how their business moving forward is focused on three screens: the mobile phone/ device, the computer screen, and the tv. As the technologies continue to evolve, it will be mobile and computer (adapted). Next year’s LCDs will primarily focus on broadband/ networking capability, media recording and sharing, and online integration with sites like hulu, youtube and the major broadcasting stations. This is the first massive step in the convergence of what is to come.
In terms of ‘app jumping’, no matter the device or OS, one of the best strategies is to keep your content/ data independent of the platform… That way your data can seamlessly evolve with the platforms and be used/ manipulated greatly as tech continues to rapidly evolve.
Thank you for your thoughts!