I'm active on Twitter, and I love my iPad and my Kindle.

Simply getting a country's population online is not going to trigger a revolution in critical thinking.

Why does crime happen? Well, you might say that it's because youths don't have jobs. Or you might say that's because the doors of our buildings are not fortified enough. Given some limited funds to spend, you can either create yet another national employment program or you can equip houses with even better cameras, sensors, and locks.

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

Mobile phones are one of the most insecure devices that were ever available, so they're very easy to trace; they're very easy to tap.

The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is done not just openly but socially and collaboratively.

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.