Google Chairman Eric Schmidt (No. 49 in Forbes' list of the 400 richest Americans, net worth $8.3 billion) predicted the disappearance of the Internet, reported on Friday, January 23. The Daily Mail

“I will answer very simply - the Internet will disappear,” said the head of the board of directors of Google when asked what the future of the global electronic network will be, during one of the discussions at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

According to the billionaire, the Internet will cease to exist in its modern form. “There will be so many IP addresses, so many devices, sensors, things you wear, things you interact with, that you won't even feel it. It will become a permanent part of your presence,” Schmidt explained.

The head of the company noted that people are now witnessing the emergence and change of a huge number of powerful technical platforms, as well as a change in the “order of dominance, that is, leadership” in connection with the emergence of mobile applications for smartphones.

“It is now completely impossible to predict what the infrastructure for these applications will look like as a whole new cohort of players emerge to leverage the power of smartphones, which are essentially nothing more than supercomputers,” he said. “At the moment, I view this market as completely open,” concluded the head of Google.

In his view, a “highly personalized, interactive and very, very interesting world” will soon emerge, which will create new jobs - both in the technology industry and in other areas.

During the discussion, Schmidt touched on other topics, the publication notes. He also shared his impressions of his recent trip to the DPRK. The head of the company indicated that there are enough Internet connections, but there is no roaming, and the use of the network is “strictly controlled.”

In mid-January, Google, together with the investment fund Fidelity, invested $1 billion in the SpaceX company of billionaire Elon Musk (No. 44 in the ranking of the 400 richest Americans, net worth: $10.3 billion). SpaceX will use the raised funds to implement a project to launch several hundred satellites transmitting Internet signals.

Another IT billionaire, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (No. 11 in the ranking of the 400 richest Americans, net worth: $34 billion) launched the Internet.org project in 2013, the goal of which is to provide access to the Internet to billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America. America. In 2014, the project launched a mobile app that gives users free access to a range of basic internet services, including websites with useful health, employment and local information. The app was first launched in Zambia.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt predicted the end of the Internet