A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties.

For many oppositional movements, the Internet, while providing the opportunity to distribute information more quickly and cheaper, may have actually made their struggle more difficult in the long run.

Information wants to eat brie.

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

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

Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.