“Eric Schmidt suggested that young people should be entitled to change their identity to escape their misspent youth, which is now recorded in excruciating detail on social networking sites such as Facebook,” Murray Wardrop reports for The Telegraph.
“‘I don’t believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time,’ Mr Schmidt told the Wall Street Journal,” Wardrop reports. “In an interview Mr Schmidt said he believed that every young person will one day be allowed to change their name to distance themselves from embarrasssing photographs and material stored on their friends’ social media sites.”
Wardrop reports, “The 55-year-old also predicted that in the future, Google will know so much about its users that the search engine will be able to help them plan their lives. ‘We’re trying to figure out what the future of search is,’ Mr Schmidt said. ‘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.'”
MacDailyNews Take: No, Eric, we definitely do not want Google to tell us what we should be doing next, you dope.
Wardrop continues, “The comments are not the first time Mr Schmidt has courted controversy over the wealth of personal information people reveal on the internet. Last year, he notoriously remarked: ‘If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.'”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Maybe the Pink Cowboy should change his name to Eric T. Mole… Oops, that wouldn’t work, either.
I think Eric has lost all reality.
Ummm ok that guy is just scary!
Me asking google what to do? not in a million years.
It is almost like asking microsoft how to make a good windows publicity. You can ask them how to make a good apple publicity, they are very good at it.
“The 55-year-old also predicted that in the future, Google will know so much about its users that the search engine will be able to help them plan their lives. ‘We’re trying to figure out what the future of search is,’ Mr Schmidt said. ‘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.'”
Just scary!
If they ever get rid of Ballmer at MS this guy would be the perfect replacement. Cluelessness of this magnitude doesn’t come along every day.
Society is so geared toward bailing people out and making victims out of thin air.
Why are we so afraid to own up to accountability and demand mature behavior?
Afraid of your cyber past because you were/are a pathetic sack of shit? Stop being an asshole and grow up.
Eric “don’t be evil” shmidt: change your name.
The Internet has a propensity to turn normal people into pathetic, impatient, hotheaded, know-it-all bitches!
Change your name . . .
Grow a pair you douche!
Eric is one to talk, the hypocrite: here’s a married man’s mistress on her blog, which he was unsuccessful at muzzleing:
http://gawker.com/5488563/google-ceo-cant-keep-his-ex+mistresss-blog-down
Be careful what you wish for, Eric
That much power must be intoxicating.
But with alcohol, you eventually sober up.
I find it very interesting that MDN hates Schmidt while it is abundantly clear that MDN’s hero considers good ole Eric to be one of his best friends.
MDN’s obsession with Steve Jobs is pathological.
I think Steve tolerates Eric, as long as their respective companies are aligned in their goals.
Further evidence? While MDN, like any red blooded, self reliant, freedom loving American, deplores the notion that Schmidt would try to tell us what do – they fully accept the very same behavior in Steve Jobs.
Not only is it OK for Jobs to tell us what to do, we seem to wait like scared weaklings on his every utterance so we will have direction for the next action we should take.
Like I said, it’s pathological.
Schmidt is seriously sick and dangerous man. Just last week he said that in his opinion anonimity on th Internet should not be allowed: http://www.businessinsider.com/eric-schmidt-anonymity-online-2010-8.
Jobs was right when he called Google’s ” No evil mantra” bulshit.
Dr. Strangelove? Mole, he needs to be contained fast and probably so does Google which actually fooled us all for many years promised to be the world’ s best company.
OK, that’s it, I am in the process of clearing all my archived mails on Gmail accounts I hold.
I’ll want to switch to another personal main email asap. Surely, it’ll take some time and consideration, but I guess everyone will find a way without ’em, Google.
Otherrrrrrr institutions will hopefully provide services comparable with or equal to Google, but that’s it for me now.
I’m out as good as possible.
Anyone listenin’…?
I agree with you – but this is a world that is definitely different for young people today than say 20 years ago. Every young kid does stupid crap – everyone. The difference now is like Eric says a lot of it (most of it) is recorded and trackable and will never be forgotten – which is an awful world to live in when you think about it.
How can society change for the good when the bad or ignorant is forever captured and freely available to watched or read over and over? Mistakes help us to move forward if we choose to learn from them, but if everyone is afraid to make a mistake because of some unflinching eye – who will learn anything?
That advice from the Adolf Hitler of digital the digital holocaust.
Thanks no u pos.
I avoid Google search as much as I can these days. I use Bing and only switches to Google when Bing cand find what I want.
What is he telling us—that Eric Schmidt is really Jack the Ripper?
I agree with all “scary” comments. This is NOT the mindset any sane human on earth should want at the top management level of Google.
Mac95:
Loud and clear
You mean to say that in the future Google will automatically look for nude pictures of Miley Cyrus for me without me even asking?
Cool.
Of course Schmidt likes the idea of name change. This guy practically changes his identity depending on the company he works for and the company he’s with. One day he will peel back his mask like in Mission Impossible and people will realize his real name is William.
see Charlie Rose show, they talked about Google last
http://www.charlierose.com/
What a prick!!!
MDN word; clearly
Choose from Eric, who said what he said today or Steve paraphrased by Mark Spoonauer last month:
“I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a fanboy who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very innovation that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a bumper, and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to.”
how bout changin’ yer name to ‘O. Schmidt’, since yah step in it all the time…