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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?