“A child born today with a life expectancy of 90 will live to 2101,” Schmidt says. “Think about it. It is why things like climate change matter. One hundred years is a long time. In 50 years it is reasonable to assume in technology that all of these distinctions between computers and cloud [remote data storage] will have gone away. There will be a ubiquitous computational capability that is just so free and so amazing that people will assume that it is an assistant. It knows who you are, it knows what you do, it makes suggestions, it intuits things for you.