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
One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of technocracy and the primacy of politics… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Simply getting a country's population online is not going to trigger a revolution in critical thinking. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
There is this absurd assumption that the revitalisation of the public sphere is always a good thing. I think people tend to… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
I think governments will increasingly be tempted to rely on Silicon Valley to solve problems like obesity or climate change because Silicon… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Would you like all of your Facebook friends to sift through your trash? A group of designers from Britain and Germany think… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
You actually see liberals checking 'Fox News,' if only to know what the conservatives are thinking. And you're seeing conservatives who venture… — 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
There is this group of people who love innovation. Those people want to innovate, and they think the Internet is a wonderful… — 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
