I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally.
Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook.
WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire US government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.
If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.
In the past it would take you weeks, if not months, to identify how Iranian activists connect to each other. Now you know how they connect to each other by looking at their Facebook page. KGB. . . used to torture in order to get this data.
Google’s vision is tools that will do things for you.
iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also love liberal democracy.
I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.
I cannot believe the volume of famous people I run into in my life, and that's part of the reason I love diary format.
Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased.
Certain books come to meet me, as do people.