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Google Powering China’s Snoop Culture

They’ve suppressed the memo but can’t suppress the uproar around it

It may at first seem deeply ironic that a Silicon Valley ostensibly committed to liberal values would help to unleash this storm. But a political analyst carefully traces the growth in its enthusiasm for “smart government,” using the tools of information technology for social engineering.

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Silicon Valley grew old before it grew up

By April of this year, 100 employees were complaining about the Google groupthink

Quip making the rounds: Would you trust a self-driving car from Google? Answer: Sure, if I needed a car that decided for me where I should go and then just drove me there.

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Silicon Valley as a Colonial Power

Irish writer asks us to look more carefully at claims about “liberation”

The social media companies will force us to define ourselves over against the specifications of our would-be programmers. And say what you want about the conflict, it will never be dull.

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George Gilder: Life after Google Will Be Okay

People will take ownership of their own data, cutting out the giant “middle man”

In his new book, he calls the successor era he envisions the “cryptocosm,” referring to the private encryption of data, represented by technologies such as blockchain.

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