I'm not on Facebook. I have a sort of anonymous account that I check, like, once every six months every time Facebook rolls out a new feature.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

Calling China's online censorship system a 'Great Firewall' is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the right tools.

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

In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict.

While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.

I'm not on Facebook. I have a sort of anonymous account that I check, like, once every six months every time Facebook rolls out a new feature.