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

The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy.

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.

This marketization of personal information is a big mistake.

Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directly to Langley, Va.

A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties.

'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.