Technology changes all the time; human nature hardly ever.

The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.

North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways to shape it in accord with their own narratives - or risk having their narratives shaped by others.

I'm active on Twitter, and I love my iPad and my Kindle.

iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also love liberal democracy.

I'm rarely invited to start-up parties, but who cares about their trinkets and apps anyway?

My fear is that many institutions will eventually alter how they treat people who refuse to self-track. There are all sorts of political and moral implications here, and I'm not sure that we have grappled with any of them.