Google chief Eric Schmidt said on Thursday that he predicts the Internet will someday in the future disappear as we know it.

Schmidt made the comments appearing at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. When asked for his prediction on the future of the web he said, “I will answer very simply that the Internet will disappear.”

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“There will be so many IP addresses…so many devices, sensors, things that you are wearing, things that you are interacting with that you won’t even sense it,” he explained. “It will be part of your presence all the time. Imagine you walk into a room, and the room is dynamic. And with your permission and all of that, you are interacting with the things going on in the room.” h/t thr

Concluded Schmidt: “A highly personalized, highly interactive and very, very interesting world emerges.”