Evgeny Morozov

My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as…

— Evgeny Morozov

There are good reasons why we don't want everyone to learn nuclear physics, medicine or how financial markets work. Our entire modern…

— Evgeny Morozov

Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.

— Evgeny Morozov

A faithful lifehacker would use technology to avoid dead time and move on to the entertaining, more gratifying activities as soon as…

— Evgeny Morozov

“the spirit of the Internet.” This spirit is a powerful myth concocted by overzealous legal activists, and the sooner we bury it,…

— Evgeny Morozov

'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with…

— Evgeny Morozov

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

Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do…

— Evgeny Morozov

Technology changes all the time; human nature hardly ever,

— Evgeny Morozov

I went to SXSW in 2011. God, that was awful. I mean, I only went because my publisher wanted me to promote…

— Evgeny Morozov

[People] somehow assume that the Internet is going to be the catalyst of change that will push young people into the streets,…

— Evgeny Morozov

There is something almost sacred about the Internet. I'm trying to secularize it.

— Evgeny Morozov

Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook.

— Evgeny Morozov

Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats.

— Evgeny Morozov

When we can commit a crime, we can also trigger debate. Cases go to courts. Media start covering the cases. But once…

— Evgeny Morozov

Personalization can be very useful in some contexts but very harmful in others. Searching for pizza online, it's probably OK to keep…

— Evgeny Morozov

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

— Evgeny Morozov

Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so…

— Evgeny Morozov

Mobile phones are one of the most insecure devices that were ever available, so they're very easy to trace; they're very easy…

— Evgeny Morozov

“We must not fixate on what this new arsenal of digital technologies allows us to do without first inquiring what is worth…

— Evgeny Morozov

If we don't like rent control, we ought to oppose it on political and social grounds - and not just by arguing…

— Evgeny Morozov

It is true that authoritarian governments increasingly see the internet as a threat in part because they see the US government behind…

— Evgeny Morozov

As befits Silicon Valley, 'big data' is mostly big hype, but there is one possibility with genuine potential: that it might one…

— Evgeny Morozov

Once Google is selected to run the infrastructure on which we are changing the world, Google will be there for ever. Democratic…

— Evgeny Morozov

To me, the success of the cyberactivists in Tunisia is actually very interesting, because many of them explicitly rejected any support from…

— Evgeny Morozov