London --- 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." 数据挖掘研究院
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.
Schmidt′s remarkable predictions have left techies and the Internet market analysts scrambling to ask what Google was doing to prepare for a tomorrow when India is virtually the Internet and Internet is India? 数据挖掘研究院
Are there any special plans, for instance, on how to harness India′s increasing netizen strengths with Google′s strategic vision for the future?
Google had no answers on Tuesday just hours after Schmidt offered a glimpse of the search engine′s searchlight on the future to a riveted audience attending its ongoing Google Zeitgeist conference. 数据挖掘研究院
Instead, spokeswoman Laura Ainsworth could only tell TOI that Schmidt′s views were a reflection of beliefs he set out on Monday in a British daily.
In the article, Schmidt talked about the world wide web′s ability to "democratise" information, making it possible for the developing world to have the same access to knowledge as the developed.
Schmidt wrote, "Over time digitisation will make it possible for people throughout the developing world to access the same information that is available to us in the West. A schoolboy in Africa will be able, for example, to find research papers from around the world or see ancient manuscripts from a library in Oxford."
Mobile telephony, he prophesied, would "be the next big Internet phenomena." He pointed out, "Mobile phones are cheaper than PCs, there are three times more of them, growing at twice the speed, and they increasingly have Internet access. 数据挖掘研究院
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."
