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posted by janrinok on Saturday January 24 2015, @06:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the wishful-thinking dept.

http://www.infowars.com/googles-eric-schmidt-greases-skids-for-internet-brain-chip/

Google CEO Eric Schmidt predicts the end of the web as an external concept at Davos conference: asked how he saw the Internet developing in future years, Schmidt responded. “I will answer very simply that the Internet will disappear.”

“There will be so many IP addresses…so many devices, sensors, things that you are wearing, things that you are interacting with that you won’t even sense it,” he added. “It will be part of your presence all the time. Imagine you walk into a room, and the room is dynamic. And with your permission and all of that, you are interacting with the things going on in the room.”

Schmidt, who previously caused controversy amongst privacy advocates when he stated, “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place,” concluded his Davos speech by envisaging “A highly personalized, highly interactive and very, very interesting world.”

When Schmidt speaks of sensors that will replace the Internet as a platform accessed only through an external device, he is talking about implantable brain chips.

As we previously reported, in December 2013, Google engineering director Scott Huffman predicted that within five years web users would have microphones attached to their ceilings and microchips embedded in their brains in order to perform quicker internet searches.

This editor's view - marketing speak. It may be the aim of Google, but I cannot see 'embedded microchips' that are interfaced to the brain being available within decades, let alone the next 5 years. Sure, there will be research and, hopefully, some brilliant technological advances - but that is nowhere near it becoming a simple medical operation. Additionally, who would pay for this? Brain surgery doesn't come cheap and I don't envisage the infrastructure being provided for a handful of people. Anyone else have any opinions that they would wish to share?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 24 2015, @07:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 24 2015, @07:01AM (#137560)

    I think, if that ever comes to fruition that will be the beginning of the end of the human race.

    But, that's why we have generational change. What's inconceivable to one generation becomes plausible to their children, and not even worth a passing thought to their grandchildren. It's Darwinian in the sense that it doesn't necessarily represent progress in a philosophical sense, but rather adaptation of the species to changes in the environment.

    • (Score: 2) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Saturday January 24 2015, @04:12PM

      by Jeremiah Cornelius (2785) on Saturday January 24 2015, @04:12PM (#137630) Journal

      "What a dystopia! I'll never let 'em do that to ME!.
      Oh, look. There's a cool new upgrade for my Nest home automation system - linked to my Tesla..."

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  • (Score: 2) by Snotnose on Saturday January 24 2015, @07:10AM

    by Snotnose (1623) on Saturday January 24 2015, @07:10AM (#137562)

    I can't see the security holes in current internet implementations being ironed out in the next 10 years, and I can't see The Internet of EveryStupidThing taking off as long as our security model is as insecure as it is.

    / then again I'm an optimist
    // maybe the average Joe Hipster will value cool over secure
    /// $diety I hope not

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Saturday January 24 2015, @08:30AM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday January 24 2015, @08:30AM (#137577) Journal

      Well, if you try to iron out holes, you're doing it wrong. You have to darn them.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 24 2015, @07:18AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 24 2015, @07:18AM (#137563)

    about this, johnny someone, i think it was called. I don't remember because my brain chip is full of GAY NIGGER PR)N.!!~

    • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday January 24 2015, @07:37AM

      by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Saturday January 24 2015, @07:37AM (#137567) Homepage Journal

      He was retained to remember too much data, protested that it would damage his brain but agreed to remember it anyway as It Was The Right Thing To Do.

      What happened to Keanu in that movie is what happened to me in real life as a direct result of spending far too much time at Hacker News.

      I called 9-1-1 to check myself into a psychiatric hospital then politely requested they sedate me. They even let me pick out which Happy Pill to sedate me with.

      I was awakened before I'd slept it off to find my case manager from the mental health clinic had driven thirty miles so he could personally ask me what happened. More or less I said it was the result of too much internet and not enough sleep. :-/

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday January 24 2015, @07:33AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Saturday January 24 2015, @07:33AM (#137565) Homepage Journal

    Lots of carpentry tools too. I know how to pour concrete. I'm not so good at bricklaying but with some practice I could get pretty good at it.

    I'm going to dig a deep, dark hole, build myself a little home way down there, then cover it all up with lots of dirt so I can hide from the Internet.

    And yes I really am clinically paranoid.

    My ability to stay out of the psychiatric hospital - which I checked into, happily just overnight, just a week and a half ago - depends on my finding some way to avoid reading exciting, forward-thinking news such as this.

    When I am unable to avoid stumbling across refrigerators that reorder my eggs when I've fried my dozen over easies, I have to take extra medicine, and I find that medicine to be less effective despite my increased dosage.

    At least I know I'm crazy. Nine out of ten mentally ill people never consult a mental health professional during their entire lives.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 24 2015, @09:34AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 24 2015, @09:34AM (#137588)

      You may be clinically paranoid, but you aren't afraid to sling around your SSN. Good for you. You should take up tai chi.

    • (Score: 2) by tibman on Saturday January 24 2015, @07:10PM

      by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 24 2015, @07:10PM (#137661)

      The nice thing about the internet is that even ancient protocols still work on it. My prediction is that we'll have a very wide range of technologies that connect users to the internet. Some may have brain chips. Some will be posting from their retro 68Ks.

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  • (Score: 2) by Zyx Abacab on Saturday January 24 2015, @08:47AM

    by Zyx Abacab (3701) on Saturday January 24 2015, @08:47AM (#137580)

    Okay, Eric Schmidt said a mouthful, and that's news...but TFA is from Alex Jones' Infowars? Seriously?

    Are we going to start linking stories from The Sun and Fox News?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 24 2015, @10:29AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 24 2015, @10:29AM (#137595)
    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by edIII on Saturday January 24 2015, @07:18PM

      by edIII (791) on Saturday January 24 2015, @07:18PM (#137664)

      Excuse me? Mouthful? Fox News?

      That cock juggling thunder cunt Schmidt, just told me that my privacy was simply a deluded desire because my activities needed to be hidden. A nice and decent person would have no reason to have privacy. I'm the bad guy for wanting it, and being an advocate, and Schmidt was talking to the advocates. I'll respond, as an avowed advocate for privacy and anonymity as fundamental pillars of advanced society.

      Fuck him sideways with a barrel cactus. The only way he gets his dream is when he kills the rest of us that refuse to give up our privacy so he can be a bigger billionaire. Guess if I care that this came from the tabloids? ZERO.

      This was important news, sir. If Fox put this out this morning, it would actually be journalism coming from Fox for once. It's also very salient and not a coincidence it's coming from infowars. You have such a loathsome piece of shit like Schmidt, who has great power, influence, and is basically a super hero level actor in the game theory version of our world, saying that we will have no privacy while he and his live like gods off our information. How does that not place all good and decent people instantly in an information war with Schmidt? He declared war on us after the end of his speech, and his entire speech was his Mein Kampf against privacy. (No, that's no Godwinning the thread, Schmidt literally has plans that he is promulgating through this speech)

      Information is power sir, and this man just told us his true dreams for power are not just ethical and correct, but that people wishing for privacy were the ones in the wrong. To him, privacy is a speed bump and an annoying property of a backwards world with backwards thinking. At best, he's just hopelessly clueless about the realities of this world, and the abuses that always come with the losses of privacy. Although, I suspect he *isn't* clueless, especially about the money he makes off our privacy being eradicated. Which also makes him a tremendous douche for being so clearly disingenuous about privacy and his relationship to it.

      I already knew this, but I *wanted* to hear this douchenozzle say it, and I'm GLAD it was posted to Soylent. It's freakin important that we all know about him, and true character of a man with so much power over our lives. If I ever see him, I'll be in jail that night, because I will deck that man so he could use some of his precious billions to get his nose set back in place. That's all I needed to hear this Saturday, visions of how our Dystopia is evolving. That's not a vision of positive world in the future, but one in which everyone is a slave, information is power and money, and if you have even a hint of technology around you (or on you), you are part and parcel off your own slavery.

      If you're *wondering* why I'm so clearly upset, it's because the JEWS DID NOTHING WRONG IN WWII, AND THEIR PRIVACY OR LACK THEREOF, GOT THEM KILLED BY THE MILLIONS IN GAS CHAMBERS. So I will physically punch Schmidt when he tells me that I don't need privacy if I have nothing to hide. That's demonstrably not true, and it got millions of people killed by evil men that gained power and nearly destroyed the world in about the same time frame.... 2015-2030. That's how fast you can go from decent law abiding citizen with nothing to hide, to decent law abiding citizens trying to escape in the middle of the night to avoid grisly murder of their families over what they never needed to hide.

      My ancestors had *nothing* to hide from the Nazi's, Stasi, etc. Thanks for clearing that up, Schmidt. It was us and our silly notions of privacy the whole time, like staying quiet in bushes around Nazi patrols. You're such a peach.....

      Google can do whatever it wants, but it can't attempt to take so cavalier and offensive a position on a privacy without receiving the perfectly justified public back lashing. Schmidt needs a good punch in the face from the rest of us for such blatantly offensive statements. Seriously, the man makes his living, and his empire, off our privacy and wants to then lecture us about it when we hesitate giving him that power? What a douchenozzle...

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 24 2015, @09:45AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 24 2015, @09:45AM (#137589)

    Eric Schmidt and all others involved in implementing the project allowed me to know EVERY last detail about them and their lives and their organizational structures. I would like to be like Lieutenant Columbo and have the right to intrude on their lives and make any enquiries I like with total impunity. I also want the right to share all my discoveries as plain text files via public communication channels.

  • (Score: 2) by mtrycz on Saturday January 24 2015, @10:08AM

    by mtrycz (60) on Saturday January 24 2015, @10:08AM (#137592)

    I, for one, reject these voyur overlords.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 24 2015, @10:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 24 2015, @10:16AM (#137593)

    And it's developed an insatiable appetite for braaaains, much like a legion of zombies...

    Thanks but no thanks.

  • (Score: 1) by Bill Dimm on Saturday January 24 2015, @01:39PM

    by Bill Dimm (940) on Saturday January 24 2015, @01:39PM (#137611)

    Google CEO Eric Schmidt predicts...

    Schmidt stepped down as CEO [cnn.com] four years ago (replaced by Larry Page).

  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday January 24 2015, @02:09PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Saturday January 24 2015, @02:09PM (#137614) Journal

    If Schmidt install a toilette- and bedroom camera. We can continually ensure he has nothing to hide and that there's nothing to hide between the sheets. And any mistake he ever makes will be used to ruin his life. Nice, isn't it?

    This technology to implant brain chips may very well come to realization within 20-30 years because development isn't a linear thing. The BIG BIG problem is with control, ownership, respect and of course privacy. Most humans just can't handle power. So one has to ensure no one get that power.

    If you have something that other people can't handle, maybe you should be allowed to eliminate those people so you can be transparent? :P
    Just like components on a circuit board is separated at almost everywhere. The components are also only connected at specific points in order to work at all. The same can be applied to a society. Some stuff is better separated and meeting should only take place under specific conditions with a specific purpose or else a cacophony and chaos will ensue.

    For an example on what the "approved feature" might be like. Just look at the smartphone markets or the political correctness circus. Do you really want this kind of circus permanently interfering with your personal life?

    • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday January 24 2015, @06:11PM

      by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Saturday January 24 2015, @06:11PM (#137653) Homepage Journal

      Schmidt didn't say anything about a brain chip, that idiocy was injected by the moron who wrote that particular article. What I read this morning at a respectable news outlet didn't have that moronic idiocy.

      I mean, get real, you're going to have brain surgery to get on the internet?! That's just batshit insane.

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      • (Score: 2) by tibman on Saturday January 24 2015, @07:14PM

        by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 24 2015, @07:14PM (#137662)

        I'd have brain surgery to have photographic memory or be able to see into the infra-red. Having wikipedia installed into your brain might not be so bad. It's all the other BS that comes along with it that would suck. Imagine the first time you accidentally "clicked" a goatse link... it will be inside your mind!

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      • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday January 24 2015, @08:49PM

        by kaszz (4211) on Saturday January 24 2015, @08:49PM (#137682) Journal

        It's insane now, but perhaps not in the future.

        Try to avoid smartphones and facebook in the current society..

        • (Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Saturday January 24 2015, @09:49PM

          by dyingtolive (952) on Saturday January 24 2015, @09:49PM (#137694)

          I know people who do so to some extent or another. Granted they're all 30-80 year olds with no social life outside of the few people they've known their entire life. Seems to be working well enough for them though.

          I compromise: Smartphone which I use basically just for maps and email, but no facebook, anywhere.

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  • (Score: 2) by rts008 on Saturday January 24 2015, @03:01PM

    by rts008 (3001) on Saturday January 24 2015, @03:01PM (#137622)

    What could possibly go wrong?

    As I look at all of the connect attempts in my logs, I find it difficult to imagine anyone with any knowledge of networks and security hooking their brain to the internet.

    I can see it now...the lines forming at the help desks:"My brain is full of cookies, ads play non-stop every time I close my eyes, and I ran over my dog this morning when I got a pop up while pulling into my driveway!"

    So Eric Schmidt, when you become a zombie in a Russian-Chinese-N. Korean-ISIL-Elbonian botnet, don't come crying to me.

    • (Score: 2) by tibman on Saturday January 24 2015, @07:15PM

      by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 24 2015, @07:15PM (#137663)

      Must be a linux admin. Nobody reads windows logs : )

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday January 24 2015, @10:01PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Saturday January 24 2015, @10:01PM (#137698) Journal

    “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place,”

    So couples that feel horny could have sex in the auditorium and then walk around with a hard-on. Because well.. they have nothing to hide and that is the new paradigm that everybody respects?

    I hope any sane person realize that this full transparency of peoples private life just isn't sustainable. Some people just can't deal with the truth or show respect.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 24 2015, @10:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 24 2015, @10:55PM (#137715)

    ...in the future!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 25 2015, @09:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 25 2015, @09:27PM (#137999)

    Eric Schmidt Greases Kids