Washington, Aug. 18: Google chief executive officer (CEO), Mr Eric Schmidt, has suggested to the young generation to change their names when they reach adulthood to disown their misspent youth.
“I don’t believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time,” he told the Wall Street Journal in a recent interview.
He predicted, apparently seriously, that every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends social media sites.
“I mean we really have to think about these things,” he added.
“We’re trying to figure out what the future of search is. I mean that in a positive way. But one idea is that more and more searches are done on your behalf without you needing to type.”
“I actually think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.”
“A generation of powerful handheld devices is just around the corner that will be adept at surprising you with information that you didn’t know you wanted to know,” said Mr Schmidt.
Mr Schmidt is a believer in targeted advertising because, simply, he’s a believer in targeted everything.