Evgeny Morozov Quotes
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If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.
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Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.
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For many oppositional movements, the Internet, while providing the opportunity to distribute information more quickly and cheaper, may have actually made their struggle more difficult in the long run.
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You know, anyone who wears glasses, in one sense or another, is a cyborg.
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Sleephackers go to bed with sensors on their wrists and foreheads and maintain detailed electronic sleep diaries, which they often share online. To shift between sleep phases, sleephackers experiment with various diets, room and body temperatures, and kinds of pre-sleep physical exercise.
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As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.
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Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.
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Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.
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In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict.
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Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it?
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The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.
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We need to start seeing privacy as a commons - as some kind of a public good that can get depleted as too many people treat it carelessly or abandon it too eagerly. What is privacy for? This question needs an urgent answer.
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Technology changes all the time; human nature hardly ever.
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Information wants to eat brie.
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I think governments will increasingly be tempted to rely on Silicon Valley to solve problems like obesity or climate change because Silicon Valley runs the information infrastructure through which we consume information.
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WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire US government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.
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A faithful lifehacker would use technology to avoid dead time and move on to the entertaining, more gratifying activities as soon as possible.
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Why does crime happen? Well, you might say that it's because youths don't have jobs. Or you might say that's because the doors of our buildings are not fortified enough. Given some limited funds to spend, you can either create yet another national employment program or you can equip houses with even better cameras, sensors, and locks.
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There are good reasons why we don't want everyone to learn nuclear physics, medicine or how financial markets work. Our entire modern project has been about delegating power over us to skilled people who want to do the work and be rewarded accordingly.
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I have no problem with technological solutions to social problems. The key question for me is, 'Who gets to implement them?' and, 'What kinds of politics of reform do technological solutions smuggle through the back door?'
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Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable.
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Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.
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Calling China's online censorship system a 'Great Firewall' is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the right tools.
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To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its image.