In 1993, Eric Schmidt, Google's current CEO, was the chief technology officer for Sun Microsystems. At the time, he made a prescient prediction. He said, "When the network becomes as fast as the microprocessor, the computer hollows out and spreads across the network." The company boiled Schmidt's prediction down to a memorable tagline: "The network is the computer."
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