In Google's world, public space is just something that stands between your house and the well-reviewed restaurant that you are dying to get to.

The message I'm trying to send is that technology is political, and that many decisions that look like decisions about technology actually are not at all about technology - they are about politics, and they need to be scrutinized as closely as we would scrutinize decisions about politics.

When it is about technology, there is this tendency to just reject all criticism as being anti-technological and anti-modern. I think this is very unhealthy.

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

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

Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult, thwarting collective action under the heavy pressure of never-ending internal debate.

Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.