In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict.
In Google's world, public space is just something that stands between your house and the well-reviewed restaurant that you are dying to get to.
Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable.
Google’s vision is tools that will do things for you.
Once Google is selected to run the infrastructure on which we are changing the world, Google will be there for ever. Democratic accountability will not be prevalent. You cannot file a public information request about Google.
A lot of the geeks in Silicon Valley will tell you they no longer believe in the ability of policymakers in Washington to accomplish anything. They don't understand why people end up in politics; they would do much more good for the world if they worked at Google or Facebook.
