Think self driving cars, robots and balloons and more. I sat down with google executive chairman eric schmidt at the oasis montgomery summit in santa monica. He and his partner jared cohen are authors of this book. I started by asking schmidt, what has changed in the year since the book was first written . It is interesting, if you read this book from a year ago, a lot of the things we talked about did happen. We talked about the dangers and issues. Maybe the most interesting thing has been the unpredictability of political change because of technology. At the time he wrote the book, we were reasonably sure that the revolution in the Tahrir Square in egypt was going to produce a pseudodemocratic outcome. Now it seems were back to square zero. If you look at the ukraine today, it is not at all clear what is going to happen, and no one has a proposal how to deal with syria. We have learned there is some kind of limit to technological optimism. But if you empower people, ultimately, the g
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