Being closed to outsiders made the iPhone reliable and predictable.

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

If what you are getting online is for free, you are not the customer, you are the product.

If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you.

Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from service providers - and not to tell you about it.

Generativity is a system's capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences.

It's hard to try to be a canary in the coal mine in Internet because right now we're enjoying such innovation. But at the same time, we are truly in the midst of a sea change in how controllable the technology we use day by day is, and it is getting more and more controllable by a distinct group of entities, who may have our best interests in mind, at least at consumers right now, but they can change their minds or be regulated, forced to change their minds later.