One thing that struck me about going to those tech conferences was all the enthusiasm for free culture, and remixing, and social media, but people's ….

A big factor is that the enthusiast camp's values are really rooted in Silicon Valley and in these supposedly new business models. But again, I think….

The point is, this is what happens when advertising and data collection is the dominant business mode. We are encouraged to be compulsive. It's not t….

Whether it's a professional, academic keeping people out by using certain mystifying language, or technologists presenting their work as incredibly c….

Look back on the utopian dreams of the previous century, or even the century before that, where people thought machines would ultimately give us a qu….

It's very complicated. There's been this broader mechanism, an industry, which wants people to use free services, from the old days of advertising-su….

To go from the vision that we would all be free to express ourselves creatively because our material needs were being met, to this reality where nobo….

ulturally, we are definitely seeing people being to ask hard questions. There's been a major shift over the last year. The NSA revelations played a b….

One thing I point out is, a lot of people tooting the horn of amateurism, actually, these people were professionals. Some are professors who are empl….

Early on, America took one path and went down the advertising road, and in the UK they founded the BBC and developed a different kind of public broad….

There's also the issue of tech titans throwing their weight around in Washington and lobbying. There was just a Reuters poll that reported that more ….

Also, after Examined Life was finished I found myself thinking about the way creative opportunities and distribution channels were shifting. Should I….

I try to look at the evolution of these utopian claims. In the late '60s there was an assumption that the wealth generated by industry would be taxed….

I'm interested in the way the whole cultural landscape can shift over time. Okay, this will seem like a silly example, but look at the whole discours….

Again, it does seem like frustration is mounting in interesting ways, but I'm not sure there will be some dramatic tipping point. Then again, looking….

Ultimately, the current argument is "not having net neutrality will hurt innovation," and you can make that argument, but I would rather make the pub….

I'd go to conference after conference and it would essentially be the talking points. Either pro or con. It's amazing how polarized the tech conversa….

Giving people what they want reduces us to consumers instead of treating us like citizens, consumers who are on the prowl for the predictable and com….

There was all this enthusiasm about amateurism and the idea that people could now just make videos in their bedroom, or blog news stories and share i….

The point is, there's this new sense of skepticism and questioning toward tech, even if it is pretty inchoate. What I hope the book helps to do is he….

First we need to rethink the terms and recognize that we've imported this language from the technocratic class, from Silicon Valley, that talks about….