"This will revolutionize everything!" is corpo speak for "this is the next grift to wring riches out of the people." 
for me it reeks of their internal panic at the tendency of the rate of the profit to fall
"And do not quote me."
At this point, Brynjolfsson points out that, “You’re on camera,” to which Schmidt responds:
"Yeah, that’s right. But you see my point. In other words, Silicon Valley will run these tests and clean up the mess. And that’s typically how those things are done."
I almost wanted to say the US is a clown car of a country, but that would be insulting to clowns.
so that's why google stopped using the "don't be evil" slogan, it wasn't according to their newfound worldview