Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing. — Evgeny Morozov Book Copy Share Image
If WikiLeaks were a for-profit company, determining its real value would be a nearly impossible task. — Evgeny Morozov Business Copy Share Image
For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness. — Evgeny Morozov Idols Copy Share Image
Simply getting a country's population online is not going to trigger a revolution in critical thinking. — Evgeny Morozov Country Copy Share Image
Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook. — Evgeny Morozov Dictator Copy Share Image
In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than… — Evgeny Morozov Activist Copy Share Image
My homeland of Belarus is an unlikely place for an Internet revolution. The country, controlled by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko since 1994,… — Evgeny Morozov Belarus Copy Share Image
Once Google is selected to run the infrastructure on which we are changing the world, Google will be there for ever. Democratic… — Evgeny Morozov Accountability Copy Share Image
Cyberattacks have become a permanent fixture on the international scene because they have become easy and cheap to launch. Basic computer literacy… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
In Google's world, public space is just something that stands between your house and the well-reviewed restaurant that you are dying to… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief… — 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
As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
A lot of the geeks in Silicon Valley will tell you they no longer believe in the ability of policymakers in Washington… — Evgeny Morozov Ability Copy Share Image
I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very… — Evgeny Morozov Blogs 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
Just as Josef K, the protagonist of Kafka's 'The Trial,' awoke one day to discover that he had become part of some… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Many of us were a little to early to assume that the most logical uses of the internet in authoritarian states would… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
The decentralized nature of online conversations often makes it easier to manipulate public opinion, both domestically and globally. Regimes that once relied… — Evgeny Morozov Communication Copy Share Image
When we can commit a crime, we can also trigger debate. Cases go to courts. Media start covering the cases. But once… — Evgeny Morozov Alone 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
In the past it would take you weeks, if not months, to identify how Iranian activists connect to each other. Now you… — Evgeny Morozov Activist Copy Share Image
“the spirit of the Internet.” This spirit is a powerful myth concocted by overzealous legal activists, and the sooner we bury it,… — Evgeny Morozov Internet 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
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 Copy Share Image
The newspaper offers something very different from Google's aggregators. It offers a value system, an idea of what matters in the world.… — 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… — Evgeny Morozov Image Copy Share Image
Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult,… — Evgeny Morozov Action Copy Share Image
This is the real tragedy of America's 'Internet freedom agenda': It's going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will… — Evgeny Morozov Agendas Copy Share Image
In reality, quitting Facebook is much more problematic than the company's executives suggest, if only because users cannot extract all the intangible… — Evgeny Morozov Business 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
Surveillance cameras might reduce crime - even though the evidence here is mixed - but no studies show that they result in… — Evgeny Morozov Cameras 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 Digital Copy Share Image
Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked to such loans isn't. — 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
The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is… — Evgeny Morozov Book Copy Share Image
Faster roads are not always safer roads - and virtually all societies, democratic or authoritarian, prefer safety over speed, even if many… — 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
![“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.” quote by Evgeny Morozov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/151/evgeny-morozov-2995_and-love_ipod-liberalism-is-where-we-assume-that_2361277.png)
