“In a lot of ways Facebook is more like a government than a traditional company. We have this large community of people,… — Franklin Foer Business Copy Share Image
Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums. — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a… — Franklin Foer Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Like nineteenth-century European powers, each company does little to impinge on the other’s sphere of influence, competing only on the fringes of… — Franklin Foer Business Copy Share Image
I don't think Islam has really been understood as a product of globalization. It might be one of these instances where globalism… — Franklin Foer Globalism Copy Share Image
“But in the end, the hackers were misunderstood figures. They wanted nothing more than to belong, to subsume their brilliant selves in… — Franklin Foer Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“There was a more personal form of fragmentation that plagued postwar America, too—a sense that all the paper-pushing and file cabinets had… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
When Trump started belittling him, Jeb reverted to Bush form. He couldn't understand how anyone could question his noble pursuit of public… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Fifty years ago, the way that we consumed food was revolutionized. We began eating processed foods, and it seemed amazing. And then… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“Hackers, he told one interviewer, were “just this group of computer scientists who were trying to quickly prototype and see what was… — Franklin Foer Computers Copy Share Image
Google's ability to pick winners and losers in the information world is a menace. These companies have the ability to determine which… — Franklin Foer Business Copy Share Image
Booksellers initially thought of Amazon as their best friend. They were coming in, and they were challenging Barnes and Noble, and Borders,… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Hunting for malware requires highly specialized knowledge of the intricacies of the domain name system - the protocol that allows us to… — Franklin Foer Communication Copy Share Image
Michael Bradley has the stuff of leadership; he works hard and can break up the opponent's play. However, that's not enough to… — Franklin Foer Attitude Copy Share Image
Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple are among the most powerful monopolies in the history of humanity. So, the problem is, is that they… — Franklin Foer Ability Copy Share Image
“Philosophy couldn’t emancipate the mind, but technology just might. Google has set out to succeed where Descartes failed, except that it has… — Franklin Foer Philosophy Copy Share Image
On its face, Donald Trump's hateful musings about women and his boastful claims of sexual dominance should be reason alone to drive… — Franklin Foer Alone Copy Share Image
When you're staring at your phone to navigate and being led places, you do become less aware of your environment, and the… — Franklin Foer Connection Copy Share Image
The genesis of Donald Trump's relationship with Paul Manafort begins with Roy Cohn. That Roy Cohn: Joe McCarthy's heavy-lidded henchman, lawyer to… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
One of the fantastic things about Silicon Valley is that it's both the birthplace of technology and it was one of the… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“More than any previous coterie of corporations, the tech monopolies aspire to mold humanity into their desired image of it. They believe… — Franklin Foer Computers Copy Share Image
Monopolists always defend their monopolies by arguing that competition is wasteful. When the railroad barons completed their monopoly, they argued it would… — Franklin Foer Competition Copy Share Image
I grew up using maps and having a sense of direction, and now I have a phone. I used to try to… — Franklin Foer Computers Copy Share Image
The sense of crisis is everything for Trump - even if it's largely invented. His depiction of darkness justifies his candidacy, the… — Franklin Foer Crisis Copy Share Image
I look at the way that my kids interact with technology, and it becomes a mirror to the ways in which I… — Franklin Foer Addiction Copy Share Image
“Descartes had somehow managed to use skepticism in service of orthodoxy; he preserved crucial shards of church doctrine—the immortal soul, for starters—while… — Franklin Foer Descartes Copy Share Image
Not even Trump's father's wealth, nor his father's faith in his son's destiny, could save Trump from incessant discipline. At the age… — Franklin Foer Age Copy Share Image
Mark Zuckerberg has never really had pressure put on him. He's an engineer, and he's created this perfect system that is Facebook,… — Franklin Foer Beauty Copy Share Image
What I worry about ultimately is that when we're stripped of our privacy, when we're stripped of free will, when we start… — Franklin Foer Computers Copy Share Image
Who can complain about the price that Google is charging you? Or who can complain about Amazon's prices; they are simply lower… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Trump has emphatically denied ties to Russia - a claim refuted by his Twitter feed and a cursory Google search. Putin says… — Franklin Foer Computers Copy Share Image
If you think of data as kind of an x-ray of our soul, it's this window into our minds that the company… — Franklin Foer Business Copy Share Image
“When Page describes Google reshaping the future of humanity, this isn’t simply a description of the convenience it provides; what it aims… — Franklin Foer Evolution Copy Share Image
“The Hoover experiment, in the end, hardly realized the happy fantasies about the Engineer King. A very different version of this dream,… — Franklin Foer American life Copy Share Image
“But if you wanted to replicate the working of the human brain, you had to intimately understand your model. AI, in other… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Putin has made a habit of supporting far-right candidates who undermine his foes in Europe; perhaps he never could have imagined such… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
When I started off in journalism, you knew there was an audience out there and that you wanted people to read what… — Franklin Foer Ability Copy Share Image
We think of Netflix as a great personalization machine. It understands how you love French midcentury cinema and British murder mysteries, so… — Franklin Foer British Copy Share Image
“Herbert Simon, the Nobel-winning economist, took these inchoate sentiments and explained them rigorously: “What information consumes is rather obvious. It consumes the… — Franklin Foer Data Copy Share Image
Along with Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple, these companies are in a race to become our 'personal assistant.' They want to wake us… — Franklin Foer Artificial intelligence Copy Share Image
