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
Google helps us sort the Internet by providing a sense of hierarchy to information. Facebook uses its algorithms and its intricate understanding… — Franklin Foer 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 Copy Share Image
“Back in the seventies, Herbert Simon, the Nobel-winning economist, took these inchoate sentiments and explained them rigorously: “What information consumes is rather… — 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
In the epic war over Silicon Valley's intellectual property, Bill Gates was on the side of licensing copyright and robust protections for… — 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
“The dream of stitching the world into a global village has been embodied in the nomenclature of modern technology—the net is interconnected, the Web… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“Soccer's appeal lay in its opposition to the other popular sports. For children of the sixties, there was something abhorrent about enrolling kids in… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“As the Protestants celebrate a goal, they're egged on by the team captain, a long-haired Italian called Lorenzo Amoruso, who has the look of… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
