Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say,… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
A faithful lifehacker would use technology to avoid dead time and move on to the entertaining, more gratifying activities as soon as… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
When it is about technology, there is this tendency to just reject all criticism as being anti-technological and anti-modern. I think this… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into… — 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
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
I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Technological defeatism - a belief that, since a given technology is here to stay, there's nothing we can do about it other… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
It's true that virtually all new technologies do trigger what sociologists would call 'moral panics,' that there are a lot of people… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
The message I'm trying to send is that technology is political, and that many decisions that look like decisions about technology actually… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
You know, it's not a given that there is an 'online' and 'offline' world out there. When you use the telephone, you… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs was notoriously blunt about products he found wanting, but his attack on Flash - Adobe's popular technology for playing multimedia… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
I have no problem with technological solutions to social problems. The key question for me is, 'Who gets to implement them?' and,… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with… — 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
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 Image
Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directly to Langley, Va. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
The global triumph of American technology has been predicated on the implicit separation between the business interests of Silicon Valley and the… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep… — 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 Image
“We must not fixate on what this new arsenal of digital technologies allows us to do without first inquiring what is worth… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
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 Image
Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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