Google Execs Say ‘The Power Of Information Is Underrated’

Google executives Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen — coauthors of a new book, The New Digital Age — recently returned from a highly publicized trip to North Korea. In the second part of their conversation with NPR’s Audie Cornish, they discuss the role of the Internet in more repressive countries. “We fear that the natural action for, in particular, autocratic governments experiencing what we describe as ‘virtual urbanization’ will be to balkanize the Internet,” says Cohen, “filtering out content so that way the Internet experience in that particular country looks as much like the physical society as possible.”

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April 25, 2013 by Uncategorized 0

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