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

I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent problems diminishes.

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

Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.

If we don't like rent control, we ought to oppose it on political and social grounds - and not just by arguing that, thanks to smartphones and social networks, we can create new, more efficient markets for matching short-term renters with tenants.

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.

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