A rare poor review for Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen’s book The New Digital Age. The New York Times asked Julian Assange to review the bestseller written by Google’s CEO and the director of Google Ideas. “The authors happily take up the white geek’s burden,” he says.
“A liberal sprinkling of convenient, hypothetical dark-skinned worthies appear: Congolese fisherwomen, graphic designers in Botswana, anti-corruption activists in San Salvador ... all obediently summoned to demonstrate the progressive properties of Google phones jacked into the informational supply chain of the Western empire.”
The New York Times was one of the papers that printed Assange’s WikiLeaks cables before his credibility disintegrated. Assange concludes that The New Digital Age is “a balefully seminal work in which neither author has the language to see ... the titanic centralising evil they are constructing.” Will he review the new Dan Brown next?
