This marketization of personal information is a big mistake.

We need to start seeing privacy as a commons - as some kind of a public good that can get depleted as too many people treat it carelessly or abandon it too eagerly. What is privacy for? This question needs an urgent answer.

Sleephackers go to bed with sensors on their wrists and foreheads and maintain detailed electronic sleep diaries, which they often share online. To shift between sleep phases, sleephackers experiment with various diets, room and body temperatures, and kinds of pre-sleep physical exercise.

Faster roads are not always safer roads - and virtually all societies, democratic or authoritarian, prefer safety over speed, even if many of their citizens enjoy fast driving.

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

You know, anyone who wears glasses, in one sense or another, is a cyborg.

Simply getting a country's population online is not going to trigger a revolution in critical thinking.