“The Big Society, like communism, looks good on paper, but will fail in the real world because it fails to account for basic elements of human psychology and motivation. Asking (begging) people to volunteer for their community is as useless as asking them to labor for the benefit of the proletariat.”

“No Comment”

“Competition is already pushing the price of bandwidth down and leaders such as Amazon are heavily pushing "Cloud Services" to maintain profitablity and market share.”

“No Comment”

“If you miss the user experience up front, you will drive away your users immediately, and the early adopters are the ones you need to stay with you to give you constant feedback.”

“No Comment”

“It is completely a valid thing to do, however is contextual. If the model requires global thinking you'll likely need more than copying. If the model is something which benefits from being local, it can work. However, I'd never recommend copying; always innovate.”

“Many studies have been done that show social and even economic suffering is the result of an increasing gap between rich and ppor and a concentration of wealth in the hands of the few. Societies that are more egalitarian report higher levels of happiness, health, job satisfaction, etc.”

“I'm not sure he's ready to be a leader. He is smart and inspiring, but not sure that he is a good manager or organiser. Even Vint Cerf can barely muster an half-baked endorsement on CNN: http://cnn.com/video/?/video/tech/2011/02/24/ns.google.vp.page.cerf.cnn”

“Some real innovation (think radar and public key crypto) but the UK falls short on commercializing technology historically. ”