India, May 23 -- Sundar Pichai is an unlikely tech CEO. He does not pace the stage or reach for applause. If anything, the man at the helm of Google speaks in a slightly flat cadence, almost like he's reading a weather forecast. But let that not fool you-he is among the smartest men in the world and which is why when he took the stage at Google I/O, the company's annual developer conference earlier this week, those who understood what he was actually talking about, went quiet. Pichai announced the end of the internet as we have understood it for twenty-five years.

Until now, the relationship between the internet and us was clean and predictable. Have a question? Type it into a white box. The machine 'retrieves' some blue links with resul...