People would publish their websites; other people would read them. But there was no real back and forth other than through e-mail. Web 2.0 was what they called the collaborative web - Facebook, Twitter, the social media.

Do we want to emulate China in the way that China emulates the West? I think, for most Americans, the answer to that question would be no.

In the United States, there hasn't been much legislative change on the surveillance issue, although there are some tepid proposals.

Terrorism kills far fewer people than cigarettes, or alcohol, or car accidents. But we don't see ourselves restructuring society and lives in order to make those threats go away.

All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.

We're opening the doors to people launching missiles and dropping bombs by taking the human out of the decision chain for deciding how we should respond to these threats. And this is something we're seeing more and more happening in the traditional means as our methods of warfare become increasingly automated and roboticized such as through drone warfare.

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.