{"id":10653,"date":"2007-02-07T19:10:28","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T16:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/07\/going-for-president-think-again\/"},"modified":"2007-02-07T19:10:28","modified_gmt":"2007-02-07T16:10:28","slug":"going-for-president-think-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/07\/going-for-president-think-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Going for president? Think again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Computerworld quotes Eric Schmidt<\/a>, Google CEO:<\/p>\n

In the coming years, governments will have to deal with a series of questions as more people come online, he said.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Via Google Blogoscoped<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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… <\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

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 … Continue reading Going for president? Think again<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10910,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/15\/insight-into-googles-free-expression-decision-making\/","url_meta":{"origin":10653,"position":0},"title":"Insight into Google’s free expression decision making","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 15, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I am fast to skip lengthy blog posts, but this one - \"Free expression and controversial content on the web\" - in the Official Google Blog somehow hooked me from the first sentence: Our world would be a very boring place if we all agreed all the time. 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