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Google's Eric Schmidt talks about how to run the world
(not that he wants to)
June 9, 2008 | 3:48 pm
Technology
The business and culture of
our digital lives, from the L.A. Times
Despite its famous motto of
"Don't be evil," there are some in the dark corners of the Web who
speculate that Google's real plan is to take over the world. Google Watch features headlines such as
"Google Must be Stopped," and "Is Google God?" The site Google World Domination even has a
countdown clock, which indicates that the Skynet-type moment when we will all
be slaves to the mighty Google algorithms will take place in roughly 6 years
and 192 days. (Interestingly, the site, which includes a creepy video, features
ads by Google,
demonstrating how insidious that plot actually might be).
With that type of speculation
out there, it's news any time a Google executive talks about running the world.
And that's exactly what
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt did today, sort of.
He didn't say that Google
wanted to run the world. But he did offer an interesting suggestion to a crowd
of power players in Washington about the best way to do it: Just like Google.
"It is possible to build
a culture around innovation. It is possible to build a culture around
leadership. And it is possible to build a culture around optimism. Google is an
example, but by no means the only example, of a culture that can be built
based on relatively scalable principles. We could run our country this way. We
could run the world this way."
It was meant to be an
inspiring moment ...
...as Schmidt wrapped up a
speech to the Economic Club of Washington during a luncheon in a packed
ballroom at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Click here
for an audio clip of Schmidt's comments.
The appearance was a homecoming
of sorts for Schmidt. Vernon E. Jordan
Jr., the club's president and a former President
Clinton advisor, noted that Schmidt was born a few blocks away from the
hotel at George Washington University Hospital, and grew up in the Northern
Virginia suburbs. His mother, Ellie Schmidt, was in the audience.
Schmidt talked about cloud
computing and the promise of mobile devices, all the while plugging some Google
products. For the journalists sitting in the back of the room (no lunch of
seared beef filet with Cabernet reduction and lemon and thyme glazed salmon
filet for us), Schmidt did commisserate about the state of the newspaper
industry.
"We all care a lot about
this. Newspaper demand has never been higher. The problem is revenues have
never been lower. So people are reading the newspaper they're just not reading
it in a way where the newspapers can make money on it. This is a shared
problem. We have to solve it. There's no obviously good solution right
now."
One possible solution some have
have floated has been for Google to use a sliver of its approximately $175 billion
market cap to buy a newspaper, such as the New York Times, but Schmidt recently
downplayed such an idea.
Like many Silicon Valley
executives who come to Washington, Schmidt spoke broadly about technology (his
speech was titled, "The Future of the Internet: Engine for Economic
Growth") and did his best not to make any major news. He didn't even come
close to mentioning Yahoo, let alone comment on the possibility of Google
cutting a deal to place ads next to Yahoo's search results.
Schmidt opted to talk less
about the nuts-and-bolts of one of the world's largest companies than the ways
in which technology can shape the future. Noting that the United States was
founded "by people who saw a better model," Schmidt concluded his
speech with this call to arms:
"So let's be
revolutionaries. Let's take this opportunity, this huge change that is before
us, with technlology, and let's change businesses, communications and the way
we interact, on some new principles that reflect the very best of
America."
Those sound like the words of
someone who might be considering a run for higher office one day, assuming
Google isn't running everything by then.
-- Jim Puzzanghera
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