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Saving the Net: How to Keep the Carriers from Flushing the Net Down the Tubes

Linux Journal, Nov. 16, 2005

"Are you ready to see the Net privatized from the bottom to the top? Are you ready to see the Net's free and open marketplace sucked into a pit of pipes built and fitted by the phone and cable companies and run according to rules lobbied by the carrier and content industries?

"Do you believe a free and open market should be 'Your choice of walled garden' or 'Your choice of silo'? That's what the big carrier and content companies believe. That's why they're getting ready to fence off the frontiers....

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Googling Your Genes

Washington Post, November 14, 2005

"Sergey Brin and Larry Page have ambitious long-term plans for Google's expansion into the fields of biology and genetics through the fusion of science, medicine, and technology.... 'Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world,' Brin says....," in The Google Story by David A. Vise.

"'The ultimate search engine,' says Page, 'would understand exactly what you mean and give back exactly what you want.'

"The critical path inside the Googleplex includes experimentation with artificial intelligence techniques and new methods of language translation. Brin and Page are hopeful that these efforts will eventually make it possible for people to have access to better information and knowledge without the limitations and barriers imposed by differences in language, location, Internet access, and the availability of electrical power."

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