There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.

The mainstream is always under attack.

The trick generally is to break programs into pieces and have those pieces be individually testable and so then when you move on to the other pieces you treat it as a black box knowing that it either works or doesn't work.

I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard - in other words a netbook - will be the mainstream on that.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.