While I share your sentiment, I just finished Randall Stross's Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan To Organize Everything We Know, which I found outside

While I share your sentiment, I just finished Randall Stross's Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan To Organize Everything We Know, which I found outside Strand Books in NYC. One of the things I learned from the book, published in 2008, is that Google is a company with a [long view][1], which is a very good thing. We need more companies with long-term views to better our chances of survival as a species. From the [Longnow Foundation's about page][2], parentheses mine: > The term (Longnow) was coined by one of our founding board members, Brian Eno. Upon moving to New York City, Brian found that "here" and "now" meant "this room" and "this five minutes" as opposed to the larger here and longer now that he was used to in England. We have since adopted the term as the title of our foundation as we try to stretch out what people consider as now. [1]: https://investor.google.com/corporate/2004/ipo-founders-letter.html https://investor.google.com/corporate/2004/ipo-founders-lett... "See the 'LONG TERM FOCUS' section. They've done a good job up to now, and hope they continue." [2]: http://longnow.org/about/ http://longnow.org/about/