
At the risk of invoking Godwin, even Hitler was an art lover! Schmidt is a the devil incarnate, end of.
Google chairman Eric Schmidt is a big fan of the work of Britain's beloved sci-fi writer Douglas Adams, who died nearly 11 years ago. The author, who penned The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, had done a good job of predicting the future, according to Schmidt, who was talking at the opening of the world's biggest IT fair, …
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Gold, indeed.
Technology does not play a large part. But Central Banking and Fractional Reserve Banking, yes.
Basically, Governments are the cause of the economic breakdowns and they know it. But they will never admit it. Just compare what Greenspan said BEFORE he managed to land his job at the Fed.
Just today, there was a nice writeup here:
http://mises.org/daily/5938/Seventeen-Years-of-Boom-and-Bust
Yeah sure!
Though unfortunately, some clever fund managers will have spotted it even earlier, and made gadzillions by screwing ordinary folk out of their savings, before the government even formed a committee to start thinking about it! (The crisis I mean, not the screwing...)
"Oh dear" said Google, "I hadn't thought of that" and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.
"That was easy!" says Microsoft and went on to prove black was white and got killed on the next zebra crossing.
Many leading technologists say that this argument is a load of dingos' kidneys, but that didn't stop Oolon Kaloofid making it the central theme to his best-selling book "Well that about wraps it up for Google"
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"Governments will be able to spot the economic makings of a crisis before they happen ..."
Last I heard, Google had $44 Billion in Bermuda awaiting the proper payment of bribes so that it can be repatriated at a lower tax rate. I'm not sure we can afford Governments who are as brilliant as you claim they can be, and yet are so easily gamed by the likes of you.