Google to Build Airport and City?
September 18th, 2014Via: The Verge:
As if self-driving cars, balloon-carried internet, or the eradication of death weren’t ambitious enough projects, Google CEO Larry Page has apparently been working behind the scenes to set up even bolder tasks for his company. The Information reports that Page started up a Google 2.0 project inside the company a year ago to look at the big challenges facing humanity and the ways Google can overcome them. Among the grand-scale plans discussed were Page’s desire to build a more efficient airport as well as a model city. To progress these ideas to fruition, the Google chief has also apparently proposed a second research and development lab, called Google Y, to focus on even longer-term programs that the current Google X, which looks to support future technology and is headed up by his close ally Sergey Brin.
In recently published interview, Julian Assange had this to say about Google:
“In the last 15 years Google has been growing inside the internet like a parasite. Web browsing, social networks, maps, satellites, drones. Google is inside your phone, on your desktop, it is invading every aspect of people’s lives: the personal relationships and the commercial relationships. At this point Google has real power over all people who use the Internet: basically everyone in modern life. At the same time as Google was getting big, it was also getting bad. I show in the book how Google is now aligned with US foreign policy. This means that Google can intervene on behalf of US interests, for example, it can end up compromising the privacy of billions of people, it can use its advertising power for propaganda. Countries like Russia and China – you can see this on our cables – already regarded Google as an arm of the United States as far as back in 2009. Unfortunately their own [Russia and China] solution is to create local state monopolies. Google hoovers up the personal data of every single person: it is constructing a vast reservoir of personal data that is extremely attractive to state power within the United States. As a result, state power has entered into a relationship with Google to access all the information it collects. Google will never change its way, because its business model is to collect as much data on as many people as possible, centralizing those data, finding all the relationships to make a model of prediction for advertising, almost exactly the same as the NSA does.”
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