UNDATED -- Google Chairman Eric Schmidt predicts, among other things, that parents will begin taking web searches into account when coming up with their children's names.
"Some parents will deliberately choose unique names or unusually spelled traditional names so that their children have an edge in search results, making them easy to locate and promotable online without much direct competition," Schmidt wrote with a co-author in the new book, "The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business."
Other predictions, as reported by CNN:
⢠Online privacy classes will be taught alongside sex education in schools.
⢠The rise of the mobile Web means the entire world will be online by 2020.
⢠News organizations will find themselves out of the breaking-news business, as it becomes impossible to keep up with the real-time nature of information sources like Twitter.
⢠Online "cloud" data storage will continue to emerge as the norm, and that's going to radically change how we view privacy.
⢠As the Web expands, revolutions will begin springing up in nations with oppressive governments "more casually and more often than at any other time in history."
⢠More people will use technology for terror. But a Web presence will make those terrorists easier to find, too.
Read the CNN report here.
"Some parents will deliberately choose unique names or unusually spelled traditional names so that their children have an edge in search results, making them easy to locate and promotable online without much direct competition," Schmidt wrote with a co-author in the new book, "The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business."
Other predictions, as reported by CNN:
⢠Online privacy classes will be taught alongside sex education in schools.
⢠The rise of the mobile Web means the entire world will be online by 2020.
⢠News organizations will find themselves out of the breaking-news business, as it becomes impossible to keep up with the real-time nature of information sources like Twitter.
⢠Online "cloud" data storage will continue to emerge as the norm, and that's going to radically change how we view privacy.
⢠As the Web expands, revolutions will begin springing up in nations with oppressive governments "more casually and more often than at any other time in history."
⢠More people will use technology for terror. But a Web presence will make those terrorists easier to find, too.
Read the CNN report here.
