Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, Inc., and a member of Princeton’s Class of 1976, gave a preview of the future during an April 30 talk on campus about the increasingly interconnected relationship between humans and machines. Schmidt also discussed the role of universities in innovation. The lecture was part of the G. S. Beckwith Gilbert ’63 Lecture Series, and was co-sponsored by the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Computer Science, Keller Center, and Center for Statistics and Machine Learning.