Peter Kafka

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Wall Street Yawns at Google’s China Deal

“We view this news as a non-event,” writes J.P. Morgan analyst Dick Wei. Wall Street seems to agree, more or less; it has pushed Google shares up a modest two percent in a flat market. More from Wei: “We maintain our view that Google is likely to gradually lose market share in China, with an inferior search experience.”


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Moore’s Law means that more and more things can be done practically for free, if only it weren’t for those people who want to be paid. People are the flies in Moore’s Law’s ointment. When machines get incredibly cheap to run, people seem correspondingly expensive.

— From Jaron Lanier’s new book, “Who Owns the Future?” excerpted on Wired.com