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

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.

This marketization of personal information is a big mistake.

One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of technocracy and the primacy of politics over it would be a well-established truth in need of no further defense.

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

When it is about technology, there is this tendency to just reject all criticism as being anti-technological and anti-modern. I think this is very unhealthy.

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