PrintAugust 20, 2010
The Tyranny of Google
The Analogue Counter-Revolution, Part 4 (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who will watch the watchers?) - JuvenalLovers of liberty are now consumed with the fight against the Obama administration and Congress over their progressive agenda. And rightly so.Yet there is another, larger front in the struggle for freedom that I fear is already lost. And that is the struggle of the human soul against the tyranny of technology.In an astonishing interview with The Wall Street Journal, Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, has outlined what he believes will be the future of web searches. His vision is nothing less than the etiolation of free will by, and the surrender of individual autonomy to, the all-knowing, all-seeing priestly class at Google.In the future, says Schmidt, "one idea is that more and more searches are done on your behalf without you needing to type." There is, of course, a very fine line between on your behalf and...(Read Full Article)
