Former Google CEO predicts the internet will split in two by 2028, with one part led by China

[Sanguine]

Eric Schmidt, who has been the CEO of Google and executive chairman of its parent company, Alphabet, predicts that within the next decade there will be two distinct internets: one led by the U.S. and the other by China.

Schmidt shared his thoughts at a private event in San Francisco on Wednesday night convened by investment firm  Village Global VC. The firm enlists tech luminaries - including Schmidt, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Diane Green - as limited partners, then invests their money into early-stage tech ventures.

At the event, economist  Tyler Cowen asked, "What are the chances that the internet fragments over the years?" Schmidt said: ...

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@TomSea, I put this in World News rather than Technology, because of its global implications.  Feel free to move it.

[Frank Cannon]

Bullshit. What this dirty traitor and Commie symp is helping the Chinese develop isn't the internet. It's like AOL. No one outside of that regime is going to be using it because it is going to be strictly a tool for oppression.

BTW what this jerk off and his evil company has done is the equivalent of helping the Nazis with their reign of terror.