In general in technology, if you own a platform that's valuable, you can monetize it.

Within search results, information tied to verified online profiles will be ranked higher than content without such verification, which will result in most users naturally clicking on the top (verified) results. The true cost of remaining anonymous, then, might be irrelevance.

In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it.

The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information.

It's because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional resources.

Just remember when you post something, the computers remember forever.

The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.