Can the internet really save the world? That may be an exaggeration of the claims made in Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen’s The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business, but not by much (and more on the dark side of the digital revolution). The new digital state? From counterradicalization to tracking the arms trade, Google is moving onto national governments’ turf. Google has a single towering obsession: It wants to build the Star Trek computer. John Villasenor on Google Glass and the demise of ownership: What the restrictions on resale of the gadget mean for consumers. As Schmidt speaks of caution, Google Glass gets hacked. Can you live without Google? When his account was suspended abruptly, Tienlon Ho felt like he’d been dumped. John Wilkes spent a year negotiating his move to Google, and when he finally agreed to join the company, he still didn't know what he'd be working on.
