Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.

It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent.

Cloud computing offers individuals access to data and applications from nearly any point of access to the Internet, offers businesses a whole new way to cut costs for technical infrastructure, and offers big computer companies a potentially giant market for hardware and services.

By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today.

The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.

Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming.

I have to admit it: I'm not a huge fan of the cloud computing concept.