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The Future of the Internet – 2010 and Beyond the Mobile Web
Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, has made some bold predictions that the internet will undergo radical transformation over the next five years. He was right about the marketing value search engines would have and as the dominant online player, Google’s decisions directly affect the future of the internet, but Google’s success may have given Schmidt slightly less than prophetic delusions.
His prediction that mobile web usage – internet use via web-capable cell phones – will surpass internet use via desktop is based upon some misplaced presumptions:
- Cell phones are fully capable of displaying the internet.
- Proper cell phone design can provide robust navigation and adequately sized keyboards.
- Increase in cell phone quality equates to increase in utility.





