Would Thomas Jefferson Work At GoogleX?

With less than a week to go before our event with Google’s Laszlo Bock, we share this Daily Beast article on how the tech world stole America’s biggest thinkers. “For many of our best and brightest, government these days feels obsolete.”



With less than a week to go before our event with Google’s Laszlo Bock, we share this Daily Beast article by David Ewing Duncan on the relationship between government and the tech world, and which of the two people prefer to work for. Duncan: “Hip or not, it would be smart for our greatest minds to look up now and then from building drones and cancer-killing nanobots so that the peanuts in government can be moved perhaps an inch or two.”

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