Washington Is An Incumbent Protection Machine. Technology

You Can Understand Tunisia Revolution As A Failure To Censor The Internet. And Libya Had That Failure Too. It's Very Difficult For Governments That Are Autocratic And Don't Have Broad Popular Support To Be In Power When A Lot Of People Have These Devices. That Was What Arab Spring Was About, That People Could Express This And Lead To Revolution.

Google Is Very Much A Not-invented-here, Build-it-ourselves Culture.

I Had Always Assumed That The Right Way To Do It Was To These Engineers, Put Them In Offices By Themselves With Doors That They Could Close So They Could Think Deep Thoughts. This Is A Terrible Idea.

Android Is Ahead Of The Iphone Now.

Around 400 Million People In The Last Year Got A Smartphone. If You Think That’s A Big Deal, Imagine The Impact On That Person In The Developing World.