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Computers double their performance every month.

Too often, the air conditioners we use to cool down also contribute to climate change - the very force that's fueling extreme heat.

These companies are in it for their dollars, and whatever is hot that is what they follow.

It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it. This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet.

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

We're leading a fundamental shift from centralized energy to distributed energy. Energy will go in that direction, just like mainframe computers went to client servers, then to the Internet. I believe in solar, and the macro trends are just too undeniable.

Google worries - and rightly so - about how hard it is for a big company to come up with the next hot thing.

We are beginning to see a fundamental outrage at the whole interconnected mess of a system: at energy companies who record massive profits, yet allow pensioners to struggle to stay warm in winter; at CEOs who can earn up to a 1,000 times the salary of their average worker; and soon, any day now, at those politicians who allowed this to happen.

As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which calls and data are diverted to government servers or the big data algorithms they've written to be used on our e-mails by intelligence agencies.

Rooftop solar is the first true form of competition that utilities have ever faced, and that is why they're attacking it.