There's been a lot of lofty rhetoric effluviating (CAUTION: made-up InfoWorld. All the bad stuff that happens on the Web – spamming, phishing, fraud, sexual predation – isn't technology's fault. It's people's fault. What happens on the Internet is just a reflection of society.
"If you stand in front of a mirror and you don't like what you see, it does not help to fix the mirror," he said, trying to silence a Michael Jackson ring tone.
Schmidt joins the conversation as if in the same interview over at
"There might be some businesses who want to affect some outcome, who might spread some misinformation - let us call it 'bizinformation,'" he said. "All of a sudden, information takes on power and partially false or completely false information is hard to distinguish in this new world."
So why are people, in digital form, so extra nasty online? According to
Okay, I had to tell you that so I could tell you this (transitions are hard): Larry Page and his crew are working on creating algorithms similar to ones used by the human brain.
According to
So if we want to stretch it, and we really do want to stretch it, as video and audio and emoticons proliferate, Google could produce the equivalent of a digital orbitofrontal cortex that reminds people to be nicer online. Boom. Morality is restored online and everybody can charge forward chanting "Peace, Love, and Moonpies."
Now if Google can do that, then figuring out the YouTube copyright issue should be easy.
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