“[Federal Trade Commission executive] Julie Brill has a pretty good idea what the Internet will look like in five years: It won’t exist.”
“Technology has changed. So the tools that consumers are using to interact with each other, to interact with businesses, to gain information, have become much more sophisticated. [They] allow consumers to engage with anyone that they want to engage with much more easily. Consumers leave a trail of information about their interaction, much of which can be and is captured by a variety of players within the ecosystem.
One of the things I believe is that pretty soon, maybe within five years, the Internet will disappear. And what I mean by that is the same thing that [Google Chairman] Eric Schmidt meant when he said this back in January. Pretty soon, we’re not going to fire up our laptops in order to get on the Internet; instead, we will have many, many connected devices that are online and connecting us in a variety of ways. I think the concept of providing consumers with notice and choice and giving them some kind of understanding about how their data is going to be collected and used will become much more complex.”
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