Schmidt : #GoogleGlass Critics “Afraid of Change,” Society Will Adapt
▻http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2013/04/26/schmidt-google-glass-critics-afraid-of-change-society-will-adapt
“Our goal is to make the world better. We’ll take the criticism along the way, but criticisms are inevitably from people who are afraid of change or who have not figured out that there will be an adaptation of society to it,” he added.
Anecdotes intéressantes sur l’influence des nouveaux gadgets sur les interactions sociales pendant les réunions chez Google.
Funny enough, Schmidt himself isn’t really a fan of the ways that an always-connected tech culture has affected human interaction. During Schmidt’s decade as Google CEO, before co-founder Larry Page took the helm, there was a standing rule for one senior-executive meeting: No computers, no smartphones, and talk to each other face-to-face for one hour per week.
It was so hard to resist the pull of the Web, though, that Schmidt had to walk around the meeting room and look for people hiding their phones under the table, dispensing fines to the offenders.
“Even one hour per week, you couldn’t have a civilized conversation. So when Larry replaced me, he gave up. And now I sit in the meeting, typing away like everybody else, with no eye contact. So, if you like eye contact, I’m sorry—you lost,” he said to laughs.
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