When Google Met Wikileaks - Julian Assange
Category: Misc. Non-fiction
Tags: Misc. Non-fiction
When Google Met WikiLeaks presents the story of Assange and Schmidts encounter. Both fascinating and alarming, it contains extensive, new material, written by Assange specifically for this book, providing the best available summary of his vision for the future of the Internet., The book also includes an edited transcript of the conversation with Schmidt in which Assange outlines the way WikiLeaks works and why it is so significant for governments and corporations. What emerges is the clearest and most sophisticated picture of the philosophy behind WikiLeaks to date., Assange proposes a radical overhaul of the naming structure of the Internet, one which would revolutionize the way information is accessed. By coupling the intellectual content of a document to its online namedoing away with the haphazard URL systemAssange outlines a potential future for the Internet that would make it faster and much more difficult to censor., In contrast, Schmidts contribution equates progress with the g
