I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen.

Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.

In the last year, grassroots contributors like us gave more than $300 million to the Kerry campaign and the DNC, and proved that the Party doesn't need corporate cash to be competitive. Now it's our Party: we bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back.

Eric Schmidt likes to point out that if you recorded all human communication from the dawn of time to 2003, it takes up about five billion gigabytes of storage space. Now were creating that much data every two days

By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.

A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.

The algorithms that orchestrate our ads are starting to orchestrate our lives.