On Friday night, Charlie Rose interviewed Google CEO Eric Schmidt. The interview covers everything from Google’s origins and the dawn of its advertising business to how search will reinvent humanity in the coming years.
When asked if Google is interested in acquiring Twitter, Schmdit replied: “We’re unlikely to buy anything in the short term partly because I think prices are still high.”
Also, echoing Marissa Mayer’s enthusiasm for mobile, Schmidt went on to describe Android-powered devices turning into televisions:
It’s worth noting, by the way, that if you imagine the power of these mobile devices over a five or 10 year period, they must be possible to do almost everything that we do today with other means . . . . It should be possible to watch television and watch your show routinely on these devices, in very high quality. The technology is just getting there. And when that occurs, it’s a different experience because it’s a personal experience. When I turn on the television, it shows the same shows that I saw yesterday and I watch them and it doesn’t know that I watched them yesterday. What a foolish television. Why is it not smarter?
Here is the interview:
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