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Former Chairman and CEO, Google & Alphabet ERIC SCHMIDT
Published Date
Apr 14, 2020
Vox:
Google’s former CEO hopes the coronavirus makes people more “grateful” for Big Tech
“Think about what your life would be like in America without Amazon, for example. The benefit of these corporations — which we love to malign — in terms of the ability to communicate ... the ability to get information, is profound — and I hope people will remember that when this thing is finally over,” Schmidt said on a livestream to the Economic Club of New York. “So let’s be a little bit grateful that these companies got the capital, did the investment, built the tools that we’re using now and have really helped us out. Imagine having the same reality of this pandemic without these tools.”
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