I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.
At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown.
People's motivations haven't changed in maybe 400 or maybe 4,000 years.
In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.
Surf the Web is a happy coincidence.
There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.