Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt will deliver Penn's commencement address Monday.
Penn students have their fingers crossed that the clouds won’t break Monday morning.
“The temp sounds perfect, but please no rain!” said one tweet.
At least, that’s one impression left by a student on an official Twitter account dedicated to the University of Pennsylvania’s 253rd Commencement ceremony where Google CEO Eric Schmidt is scheduled to speak.
Technically Philly would love to peak at Schmidt’s prepared speech, as Google has been the center of allegations that it has a monopoly on Internet search and advertising. We’re especially interested since the Obama administration took a harder stance on monopolies when it peeled back a Bush-era antitrust policy, the Inquirer reported on Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal noted yesterday that Google may be unstoppable.
Still, it’s hard to argue that the company isn’t innovative. Just yesterday it unveiled a host of new search features. Not to mention that a few hours of Google down time sent the Twitter-verse screaming in protest.
As news-gatherers, and not news commentators, that’s where the conversation ends for Technically Philly. Instead, we pose a question to you, our readers.
If you happen to run into Schmidt – albeit with great surprise – on the Blue Line on Monday, what would you ask him?
Will GMail ever be out of beta? Have you ever rode the official Google zip line into the office? Or maybe you would ask a more hard-hitting question about those monopoly allegations. Maybe something completely off the charts.
What would you ask? We’d love to hear about it in our comments.
