“More than any previous coterie of corporations, the tech monopolies aspire to mold humanity into their desired image of it. They believe… — 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
“Facebook would never put it this way, but algorithms are meant to erode free will, to relieve humans of the burden of… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Our faith in technology is no longer fully consistent with our belief in liberty. — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“Of course, this is not an innocent activity—even though the tech companies disavow any responsibility for the material they publish and promote.… — 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
Privacy won't survive the present trajectory of technology - and with the sense of being perpetually watched, humans will behave more cautiously,… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Is Islam a tribe or is it a force of globalization? Islam has certainly been studied as a local, tribalistic phenomenon. But… — 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
“Over the last generation, journalism has slowly been swallowed. The ascendant media companies of our era don’t think of themselves as heirs… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
I'm reading the way a lot of technology executives have decried 'gatekeepers' and 'traditional media,' and that one of the promises of… — 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
“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 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 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
