Comment Comment by spodek He sounds like Robert McNamara, wonderkind of business in his time, relatively inexperienced in politics and military.Then came Vietnam. Eventually McNamara would admit> "We were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why."You can read more in "McNamara Recalls, and Regrets, Vietnam" https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/09/world/mcnamara-recalls-an....Besides military problems, we face environmental catastrophe, which Silicon Valley's ethos that technology will solve it, when it's mostly exacerbating it, and I expect Schmidt will end up more than "wrong, terribly wrong." parent spodek 6 years ago
Then came Vietnam. Eventually McNamara would admit
> "We were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why."
You can read more in "McNamara Recalls, and Regrets, Vietnam" https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/09/world/mcnamara-recalls-an....
Besides military problems, we face environmental catastrophe, which Silicon Valley's ethos that technology will solve it, when it's mostly exacerbating it, and I expect Schmidt will end up more than "wrong, terribly wrong."