ASSANGE: "imagine Washington-backed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces — forever."

[kpete]

From the article he penned some days ago, published in the NYT. It's brilliant and addresses Google quite directly. Love Assange or hate him, it's pretty stunning when he writes:

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The advance of information technology epitomized by Google heralds the death of privacy for most people and shifts the world toward authoritarianism.

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If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-backed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces — forever. Zealots of the cult of consumer technology will find little to inspire them here, not that they ever seem to need it. But this is essential reading for anyone caught up in the struggle for the future, in view of one simple imperative: Know your enemy.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/opinion/sunday/the-banality-of-googles-dont-be-evil.html

[kenny blankenship]

1. If you are a man, Julian, you are the last man.

Your kind is extinct; we are the inheritors. Do you understand that you are alone? You are outside history, you are non-existent.

[idwiyo]

2. K&R