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

In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all.

We bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back.

There's the idea that people should be able to control how the information that they're giving to websites is used and monetized in a more clear and powerful way. That's something that probably will need government action.

It feels great to have your own views reflected back to you, and you feel so right, but actually it's very dangerous. Because to make good decisions, you need to have a clear view of what all the options are.

We really need the Internet to be that thing that we all dreamed of it being. We need it to connect us all together. We need it to introduce us to new ideas and new people and different perspectives. And it's not going to do that if it leaves us all isolated in a Web of one.

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