It more and more looks as if Eric Schmidt is trying to get as much attention as possible by delivering remarkable quotes. At the Washington Ideas Forum last week he did it again.
“Washington is an incumbent protection machine,” Schmidt said. “Technology is fundamentally disruptive.” With his quote against lobbyists, “The Laws Are Written by Lobbyists”, he definitely has not made many friends, no matter how right he may be.
The quote:
The never ending issue: how will newspapers evolve. And how will they make money? Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt has a pretty straight forward view on it. He believes there IS a future for newspaper and he believes Google can help out. At the Guardian Activate Summit in London on July 1st Schmidt talked to Alan Rusbridger about this topic. And he was very clear: newspapers will have to change. And Google wants to become the company that offers the pieces of the puzzle.
Watch the entire interview below:
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