Google's Eric Schmidt, co-author slam China in upcoming book

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has labelled China "the most dangerous superpower on Earth" in an upcoming book The New Digital Age, co-written by Jared Cohen, boss of Google Ideas, the company’s think tank. Details of the book, which is out on stands in April, were revealed by Wall Street Journal’s Corporate Intelligence blog who got an exclusive sneak peek at preliminary proofs. The book is primarily their thoughts on a techno-utopian future. Like the “illiterate Maasai cattle herder in the Serengeti” who will use a smartphone (we wonder which OS Schmidt imagines this Maasai herder to be using) to “inquire the day’s market prices and crowd-source the whereabouts of any nearby predators.” But his most remarkable remark is calling Asia’s biggest country China a dangerous and menacing superpower.Click here for full story