Google CEO’s Crystal Ball
Posted by: Rebecca Vnuk
When someone like Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, makes predictions about what the Web will look in five years, it’s worth our attention. Schmidt delivered his prognostications at last month’s Gartner Symposium/ITxpo (“the world’s most important gathering of CIOs and senior IT executives”). Among them: in five years most of the content on the Web will be in Chinese. And because of the shift towards user generated information, people will listen more to other people than to traditional sources. This is already occurring, of course. Learning how to rank that “is the great challenge of the age,” according to Schmidt.
