Congratulations on getting published
Point 9 is very wrong though
Google's representatives are on the record as saying Google does not discriminate by gTLD.
If you think about it; with all of Google's PhD's it would be crazy to discriminate by gTLD. It's like saying all orange people are bad or all green people are better than blue ones.
First off, expecting Google to say anything other than "we don't have a bias towards/against X" is futile. Large companies only ever make politically correct statements. They didn't say a word about .co.cc before delisting every single one of them.
Additionally, if you think .com doesn't hold any more authority weight over .name, .travel, .pro or any other mostly-failed extension, explain why we aren't seeing SEOs exploit the exact match keyword domains in those extensions and reaching top ranks for top terms. Those domains would cost peanuts compared to the .com's, and in .name especially given it's an old extension now, the age factor wouldn't matter as much...should be SEO heaven, right? But it's not, because they know that Google DOES bias towards the big 3. Also, look at ccTLDs in their respective countries. Google clearly biases towards .co.uk and .org.uk sites in the UK, and rightfully so.
Secondly, you missed the point. My point wasn't that the new TLDs would be biased against because of not being .com/.net/.org. Google's goal is to serve up sites with trust and authority over spam/scam sites, irrelevant sites, or sites that are otherwise not desirable to go to. Panda further indicated this with looking at weak content, sites that merely republish content, etc. One of the ways Google can help determine if a site has authority is through domain and site age. On that basis alone, Google will prefer a .com/.net/.org exact match domain over a brand new exact match domain in a new extension. Again, if you don't think this is the case, why haven't we seen SEOs exploit the recent .co, .me, and others to rank for the top terms? Some perhaps have tried, but how many have you come across in Google lately for major terms? you might say "well targeting those terms is a long process involving years of linkbuilding" etc. - again more proof that these new extensions won't be overrunning the established ones anytime soon.
One last point: It's no secret that Google sandboxes completely new domains. Even if you can get them to rank, it's a much more uphill battle than if you have a domain even aged half a year to a year. So do you think upon release of new TLDs, Google will all of a sudden stop doing this to make sure they don't inadvertently bias against any new extensions? Of course not. In fact, that would show blatant bias more than what they currently do.