While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.

There is this group of people who love innovation. Those people want to innovate, and they think the Internet is a wonderful tool for innovation, which is true. But you also have to remember that much of that innovation is constrained within the realities of the foreign policy.

In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating this data and presenting it in easy-to-browse formats, allowing humans to pursue more analytical tasks.

WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire US government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.

Technological defeatism - a belief that, since a given technology is here to stay, there's nothing we can do about it other than get on with it and simply adjust our norms - is a persistent feature of social thought about technology. We'll come to pay for it very dearly.

Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable.

I'm rarely invited to start-up parties, but who cares about their trinkets and apps anyway?