Via the Arts and Letters Daily,
http://www.aldaily.com/, a review of Timothy Ferris' book about science and liberal democracy,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/books/review/Rosen-t.html, which brings us back to the question of innovation, and back to whether google is a company with a technical vision or a living museum of technical curiosities.
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