The biggest growth in the Internet is yet to come,...
The biggest growth in the Internet is yet to come, said Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, referring to the 5 billion people, mostly in Third World countries, who he said are not connected. Speaking at a National Press Foundation dinner…
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Wednesday in Washington, he said the vast majority of those still to come to Internet will do so via mobile devices. The result, Schmidt said, will be a “digital watering hole” that will result in vastly increased international knowledge. But he said the Internet “is not a utopia,” despite the goals of those, including himself, who helped develop it. Schmidt said, for example, the Internet “was not built with criminals in mind.” One of his biggest worries, Schmidt said, is government “filtering” of the Internet. He said government technologies to limit the Internet content that reach their citizens “will only get better,” but Internet content is “like water” and will seep through to everyone eventually. Asked about China’s Internet censorship, Schmidt said “we don’t know China’s Internet plans. They don’t tell anyone, and they certainly don’t tell Google."