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September 30, 2006
Writes Jason Epstein in an otherwise surprisingly uncritical review of recent books on Google: "The confrontation of founders who wish to do only good with the complex reality of their astonishing commercial achievement is an issue of biblical scope which calls to mind the expulsion, naked and trembling, of our ancestral parents from prelapsarian Eden into a world where choice is obligatory and error inevitable, a blessing and a burden upon themselves and what Milton called, with mixed feelings, their hapless seed."
Posted by nick at September 30, 2006 03:22 PM