Surveillance cameras might reduce crime - even though the evidence here is mixed - but no studies show that they result in greater happiness of everyone involved.

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

If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone.

For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness.

It is true that authoritarian governments increasingly see the internet as a threat in part because they see the US government behind the internet. It would not be accurate to say they are reacting to the threat posed by the internet, they are reacting to the threat poised by United States via the internet. They are not reacting against blogs, or Facebook or Twitter per se, they are reacting against organizations like the National Endowment for Democracy funding bloggers and activists.

Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directly to Langley, Va.

However revolutionary it may be, the Internet still hasn't altered the basic law of human communication: Being nice to your interlocutors is a good way to start any negotiations, particularly, when being hostile is an open invitation for a cyber-fight.