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

North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways to shape it in accord with their own narratives - or risk having their narratives shaped by others.

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

Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmark of responsibility, has no place in Silicon Valley.

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

The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.

Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked to such loans isn't.