Google CEO Imagines Era Of Mobile Supercomputers
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The future, as Eric Schmidt describes it, belongs to smart phones and data centers.
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“A billion people on the planet are carrying supercomputers in their hands,” Schmidt said in a conversation with Fusion-io CEO David Bradford. “Now you think of them as mobile phones, but that’s not what they really are. They’re video cameras. They’re GPS devices. They’re powerful computers. They have powerful screens. They can do many many different things, and oh, by the way, you can talk on them too. That’s what the mobile phone of today is.”
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“We’re going from a model where the information we had was pretty highly controlled by centralized media operatives to a world where most of our information will come from our friends, from our peers, from user-generated content,” he said. “These changes are profound in the society of America, in the social life and all the ways we live.”
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Google says super web five years off
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| A web where Chinese is the dominant language, and connections are so fast that distinctions between audio, video and text are blurred is perhaps just five years away, the head of Google said yesterday. |
“We’re not trying to design the future. We’re trying to invent it along the way … this is about inventing the future, and we score ourselves based on whether our customers like it.” |
Teens today consume information much differently on the web and are able to juggle various forms of information seamlessly, he said. Streams of information will increase as connections grow faster, and if web surfers feel as though they are drowning in information, it is because a fundamental shift is occurring to user-generated content. |
Brin, Schmidt eye further Google expansion |
Enterprises and consumers often ask for similar features, Google founder Sergey Brin says |
Despite Google’s phenomenal growth, the Internet search giant does not appear to be worried about taking on too many projects, judging from comments made at a media roundtable on Wednesday with company cofounder Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt. |
Though Google is expanding into multiple areas such as operating systems, applications, online books and display advertising, more than 90 percent of company revenue comes from keyword-related search advertising, acknowledged Schmidt, who is also the chairman of the company. Schmidt and Brin, who rarely makes public appearances, sat down with journalists at the company’s New York headquarters to field questions about a wide variety of topics. |
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Google CEO Imagines Era Of Mobile Supercomputers
