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Google in China: The Big Disconnect
by possibly noteworthy at 5:37 pm EDT, Apr 19, 2006

(This article is a preview of this weekend's Times magazine.)

Lee can sound almost evangelical when he talks about the liberating power of technology. The Internet, he says, will level the playing field for China's enormous rural underclass; once the country's small villages are connected, he says, students thousands of miles from Shanghai or Beijing will be able to access online course materials from M.I.T. or Harvard and fully educate themselves. Lee has been with Google since only last summer, but he wears the company's earnest, utopian ethos on his sleeve: when he was hired away from Microsoft, he published a gushingly emotional open letter on his personal Web site, praising Google's mission to bring information to the masses. He concluded with an exuberant equation that translates as "youth + freedom + equality + bottom-up innovation user focus + don't be evil = The Miracle of Google."

I haven't read this yet.


 
 
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