We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what we buy and for whom we vote. We have been handing over to them vast quantities of information about ourselves and our friends, loved ones and acquaintances.

The competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the time and resources they need to commit more fully to the task. If we can't do better, so be it.

I feel like Hollywood would rather end the emerging, bottom-up creative culture than let it happen.

A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end.

Google is in a position where it doesn't even have to strive to become a hip, conscious choice. Brands are temporary fads. Functionality is forever. Google just has to 'be,' and everyone will end up there sooner or later.

We have the alternative. "Do I want to be on the subway looking at these people, or do I want to be in my phone looking at my people?"

When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.