Google Director: "Politicians have yet to realize the power of the Internet impact"

Politicians have yet to realize the power of the influence of the Internet, which will put them to the need to deal with the online "predictor of the truth" and will influence the outcome of universal elections. So believes the chairman and executive director of the Google search engine Eric Schmidt, Kotya gave an interview to The Financial Times (full text on the website inopressa.ru ).

Schmidt said that his performance at the conference of the British Conservative Party on Tuesday was part of the global project for the education of political leaders. "Many politicians do not actually understand the Internet phenomenon very well. This is partly due to their age. Often what they know about the Internet, they will learn from their employees and from their own children," says Schmidt.

The current “teleposion” of political leaders learned to “turn on” and work in front of cameras, and most of them are already aware of how important the Internet is, Schmidt says. However, he argues that politicians still have to realize the consequences of the new technology, and not least in terms of what power it gives to voters. To do this, they need to wonder: "If television created the current generation of politicians, what influence the Internet will have on the next?"

“The Internet has already been involved in the financing of politicians, but he has not yet affected the election. But this is not far off,” Schmidt predicts. He also predicts that after five years the programs - "predictors of truth" will force politicians to be responsible for their words. " Voters will be able to assess the veracity of judgments, which at first glance are a statement of facts using the programs for automatically comparing these judgments with older data.

Politicians "generally do not realize what consequences the Internet carries," says Schmidt. "One of the messages that I want to convey to them is to think about each voter as a question that is constantly located and introducing into the system the question" True or not? "We (in Google) are not responsible for the truth, but we can determine its probability."