“The Internet will disappear.” If one had to guess who said that statement, no one’s first guess would be Google’s Executive chairman Eric Schmidt, and yet that’s the answer. At the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Schmidt explained to a room of the world’s most innovative minds why the Internet will not be here forever — at least not the way we know it.

Like any good lead statement in a speech, Schmidt’s is attention grabbing, prompting an audiences’ ears to perk up and listen for the supporting evidence. When one listen’s to Schmidt’s theory closely, he does not suggest an apocalyptic dystopian earth where technology, including the internet, is a thing of the past. His vision is just the opposite.

Schmidt explains that in the future, the Internet will no longer be a place that people reach by sitting down at a laptop, smartphone or tablet and ‘going to’ or ‘surfing,’ but a concept that will be involved in everything society does at any moment in time.

Schmidt believes the Internet will be so much more in the future and will provide for a “a highly personalized, highly interactive and very, very interesting world.” The word that Schmidt uses most is ‘dynamic’.

Everything people will experience in the future will be in high definition, according to Schmidt. A room will no longer include just a laptop or a smart board, but it will also include so many other possibilities. Imagine interactive lights, chairs, desks and so much more. The way technology has progressed in just a few years, the concept does not seem so outlandish as it once did in sci-fi movies.