# For whom the Google tolls

<http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2009/05/for_whom_the_go.php>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

It's amazing that, before Google came along, any of us was able to survive beyond childhood. At the company's Zeitgeist conference in London yesterday, cofounder Larry Page warned that privacy-protecting restrictions on Google's ability to store personal data were hindering the company from tracking the spread of diseases and hence increasing the risk of mankind's extinction. The less data Google is allowed to store, said Page, the "more likely we all are to die." (This is a particularly sensitive issue for Page, as he's a big backer of the Singularitarians' attempts to secure human immortality.) I couldn't help but be...

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Same host

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- [Zuckerberg’s world | ROUGH TYPE](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f3d1b3ff4971/) (roughtype.com, February 22, 2017)

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## Elsewhere

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