Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.

Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?

The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing.

If the cost of figuring out whether to do something is more than just doing it, then just do it!

If we destroy human rights and rule of law in response to terrorism, they have won.

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.