Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google — Prophet or Pollyanna?

He's quoted in today's Washington Post as follows: "Internet search will remain the company's focus for the next 50 years."

Let's see now — Google began in September, 1998, so that would make it eight years old this fall.

Huh.

And Schmidt's forecasting what Google will be like in the year 2056.

Maybe he took an Earth Capsule or two along with his Kool-Aid.

Because the chance that there will be a company called Google — or that anyone will even know what it did back in the day — when the year 2056 rolls around is vanishingly small, to my way of thinking.

And you know my

nickname.