Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department's Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave people an opportunity to talk about things that people on these more official networks didn't talk about.

We are taught what reality is in all kinds of ways.

Young voters are crucial. The trend over recent years has been for them to drift away. So anything that gets young voters interested in the electoral process not only has an immediate effect, but has an effect for years and years.

See technology used to be our friends. But now, nobody is quite so sure.

Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure.

Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.

I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.