“Whether it is being just a company or "more than just a company," Google's geopolitical aspirations are firmly enmeshed within the foreign-policy agenda of the world's largest superpower.”
Source: Julian Assange, "When Google Met Wikileaks" (ORbooks, New York, 2014), p. 46
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Context: Most large industrial concerns are limited by policy to special directions of expansion within the well-established field of the company. On the other hand, most small companies do not have the resources or the facilities to support "scientific prospecting." Thus the young man leaving the university with a proposal for a new kind of activity is frequently not able to find a matrix for the development of his ideas in any established industrial organization.
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“A state’s foreign policy should not just be smart, it should also be just.”
Source: Neo-statecraft and Meta-geopolitics (2009), p.139