Google's Eric Schmidt visited the pope
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January 14, 2016 15:21
The 79-year-old Argentine who by more than one billion Catholics is seen as the replacement flat of Jesus on earth is Friday at the Vatican in Rome, the influential tech boss Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google's new parent company Alphabet.
Schmidt would be accompanied according to yet unconfirmed reports by Jared Cohen, a former American politician who is currently in charge of Google Ideas. Schmidt and Cohen wrote in 2013 together the book: Digital spring: the new world of the network era.
The pope is known as a staunch opponent of an unbridled free market. He is inviting businessmen from rare for a private meeting. However, he said last year during his visit to the United States with a number of leading figures on Wall Street including Steve Schwarzman, founder of Blackstone.
It is not known where Schmidt's going to talk with the Pope. But according to an insider Alphabet's chief executive visited the Vatican in a personal capacity. Through its Schmidt Family Foundation is investing in the tech boss sustainable solutions for the environment. Thus he is in line of the Pope calling for measures to climate change to a halt.
However, it will also come to a conversation about the role of technology in contemporary society. Although the pope has admitted not to be in possession of a computer, he has 8.4 million followers on Twitter. He, however, also convinced that through technology humans farther from nature has come to be off.
- Pope Francis described the internet ever as a 'gift from God'. He also has the necessary critique of technology, and especially social media, because it vervreemend would work and lead to spiritual pollution.
The 79-year-old Argentine who by more than one billion Catholics is seen as the replacement flat of Jesus on earth is Friday at the Vatican in Rome, the influential tech boss Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google's new parent company Alphabet.
Schmidt would be accompanied according to yet unconfirmed reports by Jared Cohen, a former American politician who is currently in charge of Google Ideas. Schmidt and Cohen wrote in 2013 together the book: Digital spring: the new world of the network era.
The pope is known as a staunch opponent of an unbridled free market. He is inviting businessmen from rare for a private meeting. However, he said last year during his visit to the United States with a number of leading figures on Wall Street including Steve Schwarzman, founder of Blackstone.
It is not known where Schmidt's going to talk with the Pope. But according to an insider Alphabet's chief executive visited the Vatican in a personal capacity. Through its Schmidt Family Foundation is investing in the tech boss sustainable solutions for the environment. Thus he is in line of the Pope calling for measures to climate change to a halt.
However, it will also come to a conversation about the role of technology in contemporary society. Although the pope has admitted not to be in possession of a computer, he has 8.4 million followers on Twitter. He, however, also convinced that through technology humans farther from nature has come to be off.
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