But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be they companies, nations, or social structures.

I think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that.

Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.

Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.

MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.

In Uruguay, the President of the country announced that this would be his legacy, "One laptop per child."

National law has no place in cyberlaw. Where is cyberspace? If you don't like banking laws in the United States, set up your machine on the Grand Cayman Islands. Don't like the copyright laws in the United States? Set up your machine in China. Cyberlaw is global law, which is not going to be easy to handle, since we seemingly cannot even agree on world trade of automobile parts.