For some reason I was walking around for years with this assumption that Jimmy Wales was yer typical silver bullet technical utopian who figured humanity was just a few routed packets away from transcending it’s traditional bonds and attaining universal middleclassdom and good TV reception, if only it would standardize on technology X. I reluctantly listened to his longnow talk and was convinced otherwise, then forgot and assumed he was a techno-utopian again for a while, but now that I’ve skimmed this great interview with RU Sirius I’ve remembered.

Jimmy Wales Will Destroy Google

Maybe he’s just pretending to be a thoughtful case-by-case-etarian who can’t get comfortable with any particular dogma because he knows what a liability he could be for the open culture movement if he came off as mouth-frother, but if so he does a damn fine job of it.