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 CEO Imagines Era Of Mobile Supercomputers
