{"id":55049,"date":"2016-01-15T17:25:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T16:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2016\/01\/15\/pope-francis-meets-with-google-executive-eric-schmidt\/"},"modified":"2016-01-15T17:25:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T16:25:44","slug":"pope-francis-meets-with-google-executive-eric-schmidt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2016\/01\/15\/pope-francis-meets-with-google-executive-eric-schmidt\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis meets with Google executive, Eric Schmidt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although he has admitted to not owning a computer, Pope Francis is certainly no stranger to the power of technology.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis meet with Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google parent company Alphabet, and Jared Cohen, chairman for Google Ideas, for a private 15-minute meeting in the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p>ERIC SCHMIDT<br \/>\nChairman of Alphabet, Former Google CEO<br \/>\n'I want to work with you to make these points... We will make it happen.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>'Pray for me. Don't forget.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>'We will... Thank you so much.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>To date, Pope Francis has proven to be the most influential, tech-savvy Pope: He is the head of the Catholic church, with a following of over a billion and counting; he has over 8 million followers on Twitter; and recently hosted two Google hangouts from the Vatican.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Big numbers are something Eric Schmidt is also very familiar with. Schmidt, who runs a multi-billion dollar web hosting company, wants to join forces with Pope Francis by working together.<\/p>\n<p>JARED COHEN<br \/>\nHead of Google Ideas<br \/>\n'My daughters name is Zelda.. Uh, if you would be willing to write a note of advice to her.. She's 22 months.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The Pope took the time to write a personalized \u00a0note of advice for Jared Cohen's 22-month-old daughter, Zelda.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, today's meeting will help bridge the gap between societies with a mixture of technology and divine intervention.<\/p>\n<p>YA<br \/>\nCTV<br \/>\nJM<br \/>\n- BN<br \/>\nUp: AC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 15, 2016. The private 15-minute meeting that took place in the Vatican on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":34950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/vUt1K4EB0uw","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bmrgooglint.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}