Assange Slams Google's Philosophy as Dystopian

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is known for his intense criticism of modern tech companies. In an op-ed for The New York Times, he used Google's failed smart glasses as a rhetorical device to critique their philosophy.

The article in question was critiquing the book 'The New Digital Age' by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, which outlined Google's vision for how the world was changing and laid out the company's role in reshaping it. However, Assange saw it as a bland and uninspired account of how this company was implementing George Orwell's prophecy without understanding it.

Assange compared people wearing Google Glass to 'a boot stamping on a human face', drawing from Orwell's famous line. He believed that the modern form of this Orwellian vision is centered around consumer technology, with gadgets like the Google Glass serving to sap users' independence and privacy.