Speaking to the business and political elite at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Schmidt said: “There will be so many sensors, so many devices, that you won’t even sense it, it will be all around you.”
“It will be part of your presence all the time. Imagine you walk into a room and … you are interacting with all the things going on in that room.”
“A highly personalized, highly interactive and very interesting world emerges.”
On the sort of high-level panel only found among the ski slopes of Davos, the heads of Google, Facebook and Microsoft and Vodafone sought to allay fears that the rapid pace of technological advance was killing jobs.
“Everyone’s worried about jobs,” admitted Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook.
With so many changes in the technology world, “the transformation is happening faster than ever before,” she acknowledged.
“But tech creates jobs not only in the tech space but outside,” she insisted.