Google's Schmidt Predicts the Future
- By: kidmercury [privmsg - website] On 28th May 2006 In
Times of India has an article noting some of Google CEO Eric Schmidt's thoughts on where the web is headed. Schmidt foresees India and its national language, Hindi, as huge factors in 5 - 10 years.
Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt has predicted that India and not China will become the world's biggest Internet market in "about five or ten years from now, based on current trends."
And what's more, Schmidt's other futurist view is that Hindi, not Hispanic, could become one of the world's three Internet languages, in conjunction with English and Chinese.
The article also quotes Schmidt on this thoughts on mobile phones as a key to the Internet.
"Mobile phones are cheaper than PCs, there are three times more of them, growing at twice the speed, and they increasingly have Internet access.
What is more the World Bank estimates that more than two-thirds of the world's population lives within range of a mobile phone network."
via Andy Beal
One step forward one step backward
India will become bigger than China in the future. But not for Hindi, its basically because more people in India know English than US. Hence they are more prime to be integrated to global community. Hindi might be national langauge officially, but English is the unofficial major language and an unifying factor.
My only questions would be
Do Indians stick together as well as Chinese?
Do Chinese work harder and go all out to support their families?
Who are better business people?
What is the most spoken language in the world?
What happens when China becomes a world power and all educated Chinese return to China?
The future will be very interesting either way!!
And what's with those fucking popups in the article....