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In June 2011, Julian Assange received an unusual visitor: the chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, arrived from America at Ellingham Hall, the country residence in Norfolk, England where Assange was living under house arrest. For several hours the besieged leader of the world's most famous insurgent publishing organisation and the billionaire head of the world's largest information empire locked horns. The two men debated the political problems faced by society, and the technological solutions engendered by the global network - from the Arab Spring to Bitcoin. They outlined radically opposing perspectives: for Assange, the liberating power of the Internet is based on its freedom and statelessness. For Schmidt, emancipation is at one with US foreign policy objectives and is driven by connecting non-Western countries to American companies and markets. These differences embodied a tug-of-war over the Internet's future that has only gathered force subsequently. When Google Met WikiLeaks presents the story of Assange and Schmidt's encounter. Both fascinating and alarming, it contains an edited transcript of their conversation and extensive, new material, written by Assange specifically for this book, providing the best available summary of his vision for the future of the Internet.

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'Assange has one of the sharpest technological brains there is; the Schmidt transcript demonstrates how much stronger his grasp of the web is than even Google's executive chairman.' -- The Sunday Times

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Julian Paul Assange (born 3 July 1971) is an Australian computer programmer, publisher and journalist. He is editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, an organisation which he founded in 2006. He currently resides in Ecuador's London embassy after having been granted political asylum in August 2012. Tom Pile is a veteran New York composer and multi-instrumentalist. Drawn from a combination of electronic and acoustic source material, his music spans a host of genres, but you will hear rock beats and symphonic nuances, jazz riffs and tone poems, ethnic instruments and found sounds, and even an occasional vocal bit to keep it all human. A transplanted Midwesterner, Tom has spent the last 30 years living and working in New York, travelling the world with various ensembles and companies. His partnership with Ron Litman was a highlight of the 1980s New York Off-Broadway scene, as was Innocents, a tribute to Buddy Holly that enjoyed multiple runs in NY and two international tours. He is currently (2011) with Audible, the audiobook production and distribution company owned by Amazon.com, living in Westchester County, and raising a family. Tom has contributed many songs and scores to movies, TV, dance, theatre, and audiobooks. He has an audio production company, Running Dog Music.

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