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

Cyberattacks have become a permanent fixture on the international scene because they have become easy and cheap to launch. Basic computer literacy and a modest budget can go a long way toward invading a country's cyberspace.

Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.

Faster roads are not always safer roads - and virtually all societies, democratic or authoritarian, prefer safety over speed, even if many of their citizens enjoy fast driving.

Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

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.