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

I have no problem with technological solutions to social problems. The key question for me is, 'Who gets to implement them?' and, 'What kinds of politics of reform do technological solutions smuggle through the back door?'

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

Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions.

In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in stone and plastic. Inferior standards can prevail due to smart marketing or industry collusion.

I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.