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.

I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent problems diminishes.

Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions.

When we get the remote Russian village online, what will get people to the Internet is not going to be reports from Human Rights Watch. It's going to be pornography, 'Sex and the City,' or maybe funny videos of cats.

One possible future for WikiLeaks is to morph into a gigantic media intermediary - perhaps, even something of a clearing house for investigative reporting - where even low-level leaks would be matched with the appropriate journalists to pursue and report on them and, perhaps, even with appropriate NGOs to advocate on their causes.

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

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