Monday, June 03, 2013

Sinister impatience …

 Bryan Appleyard — Has Google Gone Gaga? (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Google certainly has trouble with pesky regulators in almost every territory in which it operates, but this is a crazy hook on which to hang its brand. The fantasy of a soi-disant intelligentsia deciding it is too good to be contained by mere government is as old as it is idiotic. The Simpsons even had a whole episode – They Saved Lisa’s Brain with guest star Stephen Hawking – which shrewdly pointed out the shortcomings of mere IQ as a guide to government.

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