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Google Speaks Truth to Power
From Will at The Other News:
- Mark Cuban On Net Neutrality
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- Followup On Google News
A week ago on my blog I mentioned that an Arab joke group blog, KABOBfest, was being indexed by Google News as a legitimate news site. The posting got picked up in a number of blogs and Google decided to act. Of course, Google News could not bring itself...
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Google Says, Make Sure Government Does Not Get In The Way of Business
Google Speaks Truth to Power
From Will at The Other News:
(WSJ) Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, recently recounted a dinner in 1995 featuring a talk by Andy Grove, a founder of Intel:Read the full story here.
"He says, 'This is easy to understand. High tech runs three times faster than normal businesses. And the government runs three times slower than normal businesses. So we have a nine-times gap.'
All of my experiences are consistent with Andy Grove's observation." Schmidt explained there was only one way to deal with this nine-times gap, which this column hereby christens "Grove's Law of Government." That is "to make sure that the government does not get in the way and slow things down."
He contrasted innovation in Silicon Valley with innovation in Washington. "Now there are startups in Washington," he said, "founded by people who were policy makers. . . . They're very clever people, and they've figured out a way in regulation to discriminate, to find a new satellite spectrum or a new frequency or whatever.
They immediately hired a whole bunch of lobbyists. They raised some money to do that. And they're trying to innovate through regulation. So that's what passes for innovation in Washington."
- Mark Cuban On Net Neutrality
...
- Google Chairman: "the Internet Will Disappear" Into You, "you Won't Even Sense It, It Will Be Part Of Your Presence All The Time"
Google Chairman, Eric Schmidt spoke at Davos this week. This is an important article, if you want to understand the future of our world. The issues discussed in this article touch on First and Fourth Amendment issues that will come to either be understood...
- Opening The Barn Door
Newsmax: Obama Plans Internet Grab: FCC to Embrace 'Net Neutrality' Sunday, September 20, 2009 7:16 PM By: John O. Edwards Since the Internet took root as a mass communications phenomenon in the mid 1990s, a quiet war has raged in Washington...
- Google Plans "data Barges" At Sea, Away From National Laws And Taxes
Google basically wants to become their own country, with their own laws, tax system, and government. Google may become the first corporation a country decides it must go to war against. How long before Google's security men become an army? How long...
- Followup On Google News
A week ago on my blog I mentioned that an Arab joke group blog, KABOBfest, was being indexed by Google News as a legitimate news site. The posting got picked up in a number of blogs and Google decided to act. Of course, Google News could not bring itself...