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Note: This is a review of a book by Google's Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, written by Julian Assange of WikiLeaks.


Hacker News's favourite technology pundit wrote another great book review: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113272/eric-schmidt-and-j....


This largely echoes Assange's views on the book, in longer form.

The good news is that, thanks in part to this superficial and megalomaniacal book, the company’s mammoth intellectual ambitions will be preserved for posterity to study in a cautionary way. The virtual world of Google’s imagination might not be real, but the glib arrogance of its executives definitely is.


Yes, sort of -- although actually the New York Times correctly labeled it an "opinion" piece rather than a book review.




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