We urgently need to develop the fundamentals for just and equitable ethics and politics of search engines and to put into place mechanisms for their deployment.

What Curtiss did for the world is so phenomenal, it so dwarfs small-town politics.

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

You can burn down all the plants and crops on my land, but you cannot keep an outpouring of rain from coming to bring back its pristine status.

Lifting others up will make you tall; pushing others down will make you short.

... As Weber suggests, once science is employed to justify and enact ideal values, especially through the actions of an elite few (the academy), particular values, in this case the idea of what is 'natural', are cast into an objectively valid and legitimate form, and thus appear as being beyond critique. And at this point Weber rightly warns that science, contrary to Durkheim's belief, is not both cognitive and moral in nature, for it rests upon a designation of authority, and may, especially if used beyond its own limits, give rise to new means of domination.