First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.

The first satellites go into orbit around Mars in 2008, as many as a half dozen of them,

Privacy may actually be an anomaly.

Companies that rely on the Internet for their business models should be contributing to guarantee that the Internet remains stable,

Sorting through what social conventions we ought to adopt for the Internet is a pretty tricky and complicated topic. I think we are just going to live through a lot of these issues until we discover what social norms make sense.

It's the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity.