Evgeny Morozov Quotes
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Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.
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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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You know, anyone who wears glasses, in one sense or another, is a cyborg.
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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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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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If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone.
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The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is done not just openly but socially and collaboratively.
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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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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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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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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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Technology changes all the time; human nature hardly ever.
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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.
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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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The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.
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Information wants to eat brie.
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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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The great temptation of Big Data is that we can stop worrying about comprehension and focus on preventive action instead. Instead of wasting precious public resources on understanding the 'why' - i.e., exploring the reasons as to why terrorists become terrorists - one can focus on predicting the 'when' so that a timely intervention could be made.
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The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep track of people in the camps, ecological disasters.
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Google’s vision is tools that will do things for you.
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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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Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.
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Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmark of responsibility, has no place in Silicon Valley.
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It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank.