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Will Tech Giants Control News Values?
- The Guardian, Sunday, August 31, 2014 3:06 PM
Several years ago, Vint Cerf visited the Guardian in his capacity as Google’s “evangelist in chief”. He showed us mini-robots and talked about building the internet in space. We smiled indulgently, inwardly questioning the robustness of his faculties, and talk turned inevitably to “the future of newspapers”. “Well,” said Cerf, rotating his robot, “the problem is there’s ‘news’ and there’s ‘paper’, and those are two separate things.”
