If I'm reading my Facebook feed, it's using algorithms, procedures, and methods to give me what I want, or what it thinks… — Franklin Foer 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 Copy Share Image
One of Trump's vulnerabilities is that he doesn't always vet his people, whether it's business partners, the dubious characters he retweets, or… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“The dream of stitching the world into a global village has been embodied in the nomenclature of modern technology—the net is interconnected,… — Franklin Foer 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 Copy Share Image
“Google’s trucks would pull up to libraries and quietly walk away with boxes of books to be quickly scanned and returned. “If… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“In a lot of ways Facebook is more like a government than a traditional company. We have this large community of people,… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Of course, formulas always existed in journalism. When I was just getting into the business, 'Time' and 'Newsweek' knew if they could… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“There can be only one global village. These structures were the greatest business opportunities ever imagined—and only the innocence of faith could… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Apple was very important in terms of disrupting the music business and remaking the television business. They made it harder for people… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“The tech companies are destroying something precious, which is the possibility of contemplation. They have created a world in which we’re constantly… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“The big tech companies—the Europeans have charmingly, and correctly, lumped them together as GAFA (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon)—are shredding the principles that… — Franklin Foer 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 Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, if you were going to get a loan from me, I would have had to look at your file, and… — Franklin Foer 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 an even… — Franklin Foer 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 of 13,… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
If I'm reading my Facebook feed, it's using algorithms, procedures, and methods to give me what I want, or what it thinks that I… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Brazil is strewn with ruins of projects - refineries, power plants - begun but never finished. Most of this investment never landed in places… — 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 that they… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
In mid-2014, 51 percent of American Republicans viewed Putin very unfavorably. Two years later, 14 percent did. By January, 75 percent of Republicans said… — Franklin Foer 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, however, has… — 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 a character… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“There's a strange uniformity in the vocabulary European soccer fans use to hate black people. The same primate insults get hurled. Although they've gotten… — Franklin Foer 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 media companies… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
One of Trump's vulnerabilities is that he doesn't always vet his people, whether it's business partners, the dubious characters he retweets, or the foreign… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
