Futurology
| At this year's Google Zeitgeist the most remarkable thing about what Eric Schmidt spoke of was the timelines involved. What sounded like it might be from the far future, may be on our technological horizon in less than ten years. |
At the Zeitgeist talks this year, Google's Eric Schmidt presented some of his ideas on the future. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about what Schmidt says, is that some of it sounds like the far future, but his timeline is less than a decade.
"We have an explosion of innovation that's now occurring at a rate that's mind numbing," Schmidt says.
Given his awareness and hands-on involvement in these developments, it makes it must-watch material for anyone interested in futurology.
"To me there is a real partnership coming between humans and the products, machines, thinking, networks, that we build." |
"To me there is a real partnership coming between humans and the products, machines, thinking, networks, that we build," states Schmidt. "That partnership makes safer and stronger."
"The real revolution," he continues, "is in helping us think."
According to Schmidt, we are very close to solving vision, text recognition and speech recognition. "When that happens, the computer scientists, the people who do this just based on numbers, can begin to build systems that are extraordinary."
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He states that these systems will be carefully encrypted, but they will essentially outsource parts of our brains. "When you think about it, the experiences that we have in this model will be captured and transformed in memories that we can use forever."
Schmidt even says that these systems will give us amazing IQ.
Since joining Google in 2001, Schmidt has helped grow the company from a Silicon Valley start-up to a global leader in technology. As Executive Chairman, he is responsible for the internal matters of Google: building partnerships and broader business relationships, government outreach and technology thought leadership, as well as advising the CEO and senior leadership on business and policy issues.
From 2001 - 2011, Schmidt served as Google's Chief Executive Officer, overseeing the company's technical and business strategy alongside founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Under his leadership, Google dramatically scaled its infrastructure and diversified its product offerings while maintaining a strong culture of innovation.
Prior to joining Google, Schmidt was the Chairman and CEO of Novell and Chief Technology Officer at Sun Microsystems, Inc. and held positions at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Bell Laboratories and Zilog. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University as well as a master's and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Schmidt is a member of President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and the Prime Minister's Advisory Council in the UK. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 and inducted into the AmSchmidtan Academy of Arts and Sciences as a fellow in 2007. Schmidt also chairs the board of the New AmSchmidta Foundation.
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