Indeed. I just posted a similar response to another comment elsewhere on this thread. It's ironic too that the company's motto was (is?) "Don't be Evil". Kind

Indeed. I just posted a similar response to another comment elsewhere on this thread. It's ironic too that the company's motto was (is?) "Don't be Evil". Kind of a self-acknowledgment of the power they were amassing from even he earliest days. There is also a choice implicit in formulating and publicizing such a motto. That is, "we have the power and the option to be evil, but we are asking you to trust us." Beyond that, it's a motto straight from the comic super-villain motif: A mega-company seeking powerful futuristic technology, with a grandiose and ironic PR slogan that completely contradicts its true activities. Not saying that's Google and none of this is to say we should all be building bomb-shelters; only that the article is spot-on in tone and content.