Comments on: 300 Years to Go, Says Schmidt

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 17:21:04 +0000

I would hate to be Eric Schmidt and responsible for maintaining hype around Google and dealing with the enormous egos of the two hacker overlords.

300 years: wonder how much more information there'll be to organize then. Problem of keeping up is as much social as technical...

By: George W. Hayduke III

George W. Hayduke III — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 15:55:38 +0000

In 300 years, 1 of 2 things will have happened: (1) mankind will have finally succeeded in eliminating itself from the face of the planet; OR (2) the man-machine interface will be non-esistent and we will all be machines communicating wirelessly (telepathically) with all the knowledge of the universe on our own individual hard drives. In either case, there will be no need for Google. If past history is any indicator, Google has already peaked and will be supplanted shortly by The Next Big Thing in search technology. It’s totally ironic that Yahoo!’s search feature was licensed for so many years from other companies, and now they finally decide to build their own (MyWeb 2.0)–a bit late to the party there Jerry, David, and Terry….Search is just the “hot” area in web/tech at present, but it’s still a commodity product with low barriers to entry so not much real magic there…

By: 2010: Poverty Elimination

2010: Poverty Elimination — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 15:46:36 +0000

300 hundreds years… just some seconds in the time of universe…

By: pb

pb — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 04:37:01 +0000

I have little sympathy for Kramer and Cotton.

By: mahlon

mahlon — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:52:35 +0000

As a Google investor, I appreciate their focus on building the business for the long term. But 300 years? That's just more Eric Schmidt googlebabble.

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