Evgeny Morozov Quotes

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• iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also love liberal democracy.
• [People] somehow assume that the Internet is going to be the catalyst of change that will push young people into the streets, while in fact…
• When we get the remote Russian village online, what will get people to the Internet is not going to be reports from Human Rights Watch.…
• In the past it would take you weeks, if not months, to identify how Iranian activists connect to each other. Now you know how they…
• The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.
• Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.
• One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of technocracy and the primacy of politics over it would…
• Information wants to eat brie.
• Technology changes all the time; human nature hardly ever,
• WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire US government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.
• I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent problems diminishes.
• I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.
• My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as trying to impress…
• The Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda.
• A faithful lifehacker would use technology to avoid dead time and move on to the entertaining, more gratifying activities as soon as possible.
• Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.
• Cybercriminals are usually driven by profit, while cyberterrorists are driven by ideology.
• Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook.
• Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directly to Langley, Va.
• I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.

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