In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
If you use your smart toothbrush, the data can be immediately sent to your dentist and your insurance company, but it also… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
When we can commit a crime, we can also trigger debate. Cases go to courts. Media start covering the cases. But once… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Look at something like cooking. Now, you would hear a lot about smart kitchens and augmented kitchens. And what do those smart… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Would you like all of your Facebook friends to sift through your trash? A group of designers from Britain and Germany think… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
“If Amazon’s dream of a world without gatekeepers becomes reality, then the company itself will become a powerful gatekeeper.” — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share
I spent two years in Palo Alto - what an awful, suffocating place for those of us who don't care about yoga, yogurts and… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share
For many oppositional movements, the Internet, while providing the opportunity to distribute information more quickly and cheaper, may have actually made their struggle more… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share
To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its image. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share
As Barbara Streisand discovered, adopting a militaristic posture against a tech-savvy mob of civil libertarians is not going to be of much help: Many… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share
The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share
In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in stone and… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share
Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share
When we get the remote Russian village online, what will get people to the Internet is not going to be reports from Human Rights… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share
“To reject solutionism is to transcend the narrow-minded rationalistic mindset that recasts every instance of an efficiency deficit [...] as an obstacle that needs… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share
Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share
Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share
“Thomas Friedman, the New York Times foreign affairs columnist, in his typical fashion, trivialized—and did much to popularize—the “dictator’s dilemma” fallacy by coining a… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share
If WikiLeaks were a for-profit company, determining its real value would be a nearly impossible task. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share
The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is done not… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share
