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

Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook.

Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.

Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.

As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy is growing.

There is this absurd assumption that the revitalisation of the public sphere is always a good thing. I think people tend to confuse 'civic' and 'civil,' and they believe that everything that is done by citizens is necessarily a good thing because you build a network, an association.

You actually see liberals checking 'Fox News,' if only to know what the conservatives are thinking. And you're seeing conservatives who venture into liberal sources, just to know what 'The New York Times' is thinking.