Technology changes all the time; human nature hardly ever.

I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very idealistic fellow who thought that he could use blogs, social networks and new media to help promote democracy, human rights and freedom of expression.

While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.

Much of the real computer talent today is concentrated in the private sector.

Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable.

Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.

We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy.