Adam Ostrow — American Businessman

Adam Ostrow is an American businessman, writer and speaker who serves as the Chief Strategy Officer at Mashable. He was hired by Pete Cashmore as online news site Mashable.com's first Editor in Chief in 2007 and has contributed more than 2,500 articles to the site on topics including social media, technology and marketing trends... (wikipedia)

A largely unregulated Internet has created knowledge and wealth, but it's also long provided a medium for predatory, abusive and bullying behavior.
The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
Since Mashable's inception, some of our most popular articles have focused on the science behind the world's coolest innovations.
Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.