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TIME's Adi Ignatius got the Google triumvirate of Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt and Larry Page to sit for a talk around a table covered with Lego pieces, for which they have a known fondness, during a break at Google's recent sales conference in San Francisco. Page, who as a student built an ink-jet printer out of Lego bricks, is snapping pieces together to make a kind of endlessly ascending staircase; Brin is working on a robot. Schmidt seems too grownup for this...
...BRIN: I was hoping to build a Lego nuclear reactor, but I think I have a bazooka-wielding robot...
...BRIN: I have to admit I never anticipated this. Especially in a place as big as the Moscone Center. It's a bit disturbing...
...BRIN [holding up some clear plastic pieces]: Look, I'm only using transparent Legos...
...were. Of course, U.S. ingenuity and productivity continues to lead the world economy; the home of Internet 2.0 will be in the U.S. just as its predecessor was 10 years ago. (The real stars at Davos this year were not Pitt and his friends but Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, whose every appearance at parties was greeted by the sort of frenzied neck craning that last year was reserved for Sharon Stone.) U.S. multinational companies continue to dominate global business, just as U.S. universities would dominate any list of the best in the world. But while we were...