Quote of the day by Julian Assange: 'If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-backed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces — forever'
The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange carved a reputation as a firebrand and intense critic of the modern tech companies after rising to fame following the WikiLeaks disclosures. Although he's been absent from the public eye in recent years, he frequently commented on the emerging trends in the technology landscape.
Big Brother is watching you
Paraphrasing a famous line from George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', Assange used Google's failed smart glasses as a rhetorical device to critique their philosophy in an op-ed for The New York Times.
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In his column, he was critiquing a new book titled 'The New Digital Age' by Google's then-executive chairman Eric Schmidt...
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