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I think it's pretty clear that the internet as a whole has not had a strong notion of identity. And identity means, 'Who am I?' Fundamentally, what Facebook has done has built a way to figure out who people are...
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Eric Schmidt
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 27
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The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.
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