'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.

Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directly to Langley, Va.

Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.

Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.

Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable.

In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating this data and presenting it in easy-to-browse formats, allowing humans to pursue more analytical tasks.