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Where Is the Digital-Age Sweet Spot Between Business Growth and Data Security?

By Sanjiv Bawa
May 02, 2017

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.” — Eric Schmidt

Eric Schmidt is trying to upset us. And his thought here warrants close attention because as a software engineer and the CEO of Alphabet (Google), he arguably understands the Internet about as well as anyone on planet Earth. It's a probe that does for the Internet what Marshall McLuhan's famous probes did for television in the 1960's: it shakes us up.

McLuhan used his probes to remove the blinders from our narrow, naïve thinking about electronic media so we could see where they were actually taking us: toward the electronically connected global village that we inhabit today.

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