Google's Eric Schmidt talks about
how to run the world (not that he wants to)
June 9, 2008 | 3:48 pm
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.
Eric E. Schmidt
Eric E. Schmidt is the chairman for Google Inc., married to Wendy Schmidt, the chairman of the New
America Foundation, was a
funder for New America Foundation, and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Note: Wendy Schmidt is
married to Eric E. Schmidt, and a
trustee at the Natural Resources Defense
Council.
Jonathan
Soros is a director at the New America Foundation, and George Soros’s son.
George
Soros is Jonathan Soros’s
father, and the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the New America Foundation, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Sheryl K.
Sandberg was a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and was a VP for Google Inc.,
David M.
Rubenstein is a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and the president of the Economic Club of Washington.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. was the president
of the Economic Club of Washington, is
an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a senior
counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer
& Feld, LLP, Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a director at the
American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP was the lobby firm for Google Inc.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is Vernon
E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP, and is the president for the Barack
Obama administration.
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