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Going for president? Think again

Posted in All on February 7th, 2007 · No Comments

Computerworld quotes Eric Schmidt, Google CEO:

In the coming years, governments will have to deal with a series of questions as more people come online, he said.

The second billion internet users will often compare the way their countries govern with other governments, he predicted. “They’re going to see their government has been treating them badly,” he said. “They’re going to be annoyed.”

Via Google Blogoscoped.

Indeed, it’s not a secret that technology changes our lives pretty fast. Governments are lacking behind already. And that is in times when the majority of people are still offline. Interesting times are ahead of us…

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