People Aren’t Ready for the Technology Revolution »

Schmidt had some interesting things to say at the Techonomy Conference, specifically:

Show us 14 photos of yourself and we can identify who you are. You think you don’t have 14 photos of yourself on the internet? You’ve got Facebook photos! People will find it’s very useful to have devices that remember what you want to do, because you forgot… But society isn’t ready for questions that will be raised as result of user-generated content.

I’m not sure I agree with Schmidt. I may not be ready for the ‘Technology Revolution’, but who says my children won’t be; in fact, I bet that they will be.
Case in point, when Facebook started tying into other services, many users found it was too eerie; I am not on Facebook, why am I seeing my profile in another application? Younger generations are seeing this as “the internet” – I am signed into Facebook, and it is only natural for Pandora to link to my profile. There is a natural evolution happening across generations. For me it is scary, but for my children, it is exciting.

♠ August 5th, 2010