The Art 404 gallery is currently exhibiting a piece by Manuel Palou called "5 Million Dollars, 1 Terabyte" which is a "sculpture" consisting of a 1 TB external hard drive containing $5,000,000 worth of illegally downloaded files. The hard drive is displayed on a pedestal at the gallery.

Facebook would have to generate $12-$15 billion of revenue in 2013, up from $2 billion today. And there aren't that many companies in history that have ever generated that much revenue that fast... Google's numbers looked better than these, so if Facebook is another Google, Facebook's profit in 2012 and 2013 could be higher than the profit sketched out above... Google is now about 10 years old, and it's earning about $8-$10 billion of profit a year. And Google is trading at about a $200 billion valuation (rough). So if Facebook's growth trajectory matches Google's, maybe by 2015 or so Facebook could be earning $8-$10 billion a year and be worth $200 billion, too.

In less than seven years, Zuckerberg wired together a twelfth of humanity into a single network, thereby creating a social entity almost twice as large as the U.S. If Facebook were a country it would be the third largest, behind only China and India. It started out as a lark, a diversion, but it has turned into something real, something that has changed the way human beings relate to one another on a species-wide scale. We are now running our social lives through a for-profit network that, on paper at least, has made Zuckerberg a billionaire six times over.

...the same free market ideology that has argued for free trade among nations as the best strategy is now arguing that allowing free trade on the Internet is bad for business. The world markets are a network, no different than the Internet. Allowing companies to implement charges against certain types of network traffic is no different than countries implementing tariffs against certain types of imports or subsidies of certain exports. The practice can quickly devolve into trade wars, like the Airbus-Boeing subsidy war and the recent tariff wars between telecoms in Kenya.

Protecting this concept [net neutrality] would prevent a big ISP from sending you video from a media company it may own at 300 Mbps but sending video from a competing media company at a slower rate. That amounts to commercial discrimination. Other complications could arise. What if your ISP made it easier for you to connect to a particular online shoe store and harder to reach others? That would be powerful control. What if the ISP made it difficult for you to go to Web sites about certain political parties, or religions, or sites about evolution?

Last December, Abdulmutallab’s attempt over Detroit. In February, Joseph Andrew Stack, a software engineer, crashed his plane into I.R.S. offices in Austin, Tex. In March, John Patrick Bedell, an engineering grad student, opened fire at an entrance to the Pentagon. In early May, Faisal Shahzad (bachelor of science in computer science and engineering) was arrested at Kennedy Airport for a failed attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square. Also in May, Faiz Mohammad, a civil engineer, was caught at Karachi’s airport with batteries and an electrical circuit hidden in his shoes. And going back, of the 9/11 conspirators who had been educated beyond high school, eight studied engineering.