If you only have one shot at writing a headline, there's a lot of pressure.

The Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see.

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

If you Google some sites about the link between vaccines and autism, you can very quickly find that Google is repeating back to you your view about whether that link exists and not what scientists know, which is that there isn't a link between vaccines and autism. It's a feedback loop that's invisible.

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

Personalization is based on a bargain. In exchange for the service of filtering, you hand large companies an enormous amount of data about your daily life--much of whic you might not trust your friends with.

In a broadcast society, there were these gatekeepers, the editors, and they controlled the flows of information. Along came the Internet and it swept them out of the way, and it allowed all of us to connect together, and it was awesome. But that's not actually what's happening right now.