Google chief Schmidt maps out future of Internet

ORLANDO, Florida: A Web where Chinese is the dominant language, and connections are so fast that distinctions between audio, video and text are blurred is perhaps just five years away, the head of Google said.

Eric Schmidt, chairman and chief executive officer of Google Inc, spoke to about 5,000 chief information officers and information technology executives in Orlando for a technology conference.

"All of these distinctions will completely go away," he said. "We're not trying to design the future. We're trying to invent it along the way ... This is about inventing the future, and we score ourselves based on whether our customers like it."