Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked to such loans isn't.

When we can commit a crime, we can also trigger debate. Cases go to courts. Media start covering the cases. But once you build smart environments where, if you meet a certain probabilistic profile, you won't even be allowed to board a bus, let alone commit a crime, we're perpetuating existing laws so they face no challenges or revision.

The Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda.

Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.

In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.

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.

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.