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

Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses.

In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict.

Information wants to eat brie.

Much of the real computer talent today is concentrated in the private sector.

Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so that instead of discussing the public interest, we are discussing the interests of individual software developers, while claiming that this is a discussion about "innovation" and "progress," not "accountability" or "security."

The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep track of people in the camps, ecological disasters.