A beacon of hope?
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To hear someone from Google claim they don’t understand something is like hearing a fundamentalist religious believer suddenly declare he has celestial doubts.
There was something, therefore, stunningly heartwarming about Eric Schmidt’s appearance on Tuesday night’s “Colbert Report.”
In a previous appearance on the show, Google’s executive chairman had tried to be funny. This time, he allowed Colbert to be the comedian — which was a good decision.
Instead, Schmidt took the opportunity to thrust his new book “The New Digital Age” at the cool, ironic world and offer a little hope.
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His first uplifting admission was that no one understands the Internet, not even Eric Schmidt.
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