Atlantic interview with Eric Schmidt

As part of the series of shortish interviews of big shots by Atlantic staffers at the Aspen Ideas Festival, our they-never-sleep web team has posted this Q-and-A between me and Eric Schmidt of Google:

See web-only content:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2009/07/atlantic-interview-with-eric-schmidt/21113/For the record: I've known Eric Schmidt since the early 1990s, in his pre-Novell and pre-Google days. He and his wife were (and are) Atlantic readers, and I met them at a book event on the west coast; our families have been friends since then. I'm reluctant to say this, both for infringing on their privacy and because it will seem like bragging about now-famous friends. But in the spirit of "transparency" that Schmidt mentions often, including in this brief talk, and to avoid anyone wondering whether I am "concealing" a connection with someone I'm interacting with journalistically here and other times, I note it FWIW.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2009/07/atlantic-interview-with-eric-schmidt/21113/