Our faith in technology is no longer fully consistent with our belief in liberty. — Franklin Foer Belief Copy Share Image
I think that globalization is partly responsible for the spread of the hostile, radical forms of Islam. — Franklin Foer Form Copy Share Image
The demise of Jeb Bush has been a source of immeasurable pleasure for, well, nearly everyone. — Franklin Foer Been Copy Share Image
Google is arguably one of the greatest inventions. The search engine is one of the greatest inventions in human history. — Franklin Foer Google Copy Share Image
Trump is a real estate guy who sucks up to power to get buildings built. — Franklin Foer Buildings Copy Share Image
Mark Zuckerberg talks about telepathy, and Elon Musk has invested in trying to create a brain-machine interface. — Franklin Foer About Copy Share Image
If you game Facebook and Google in the right way, then you can achieve a mass audience. — Franklin Foer Achieve Copy Share Image
Trump and Yanukovych have shared the same political brain: an operative named Paul Manafort. — Franklin Foer Brain Copy Share Image
“Instead of profound redistributions of power, the new networks are captured by new monopolies, each more powerful and sophisticated than the one… — Franklin Foer Monopolies Copy Share Image
“There can be only one global village. These structures were the greatest business opportunities ever imagined—and only the innocence of faith could… — Franklin Foer Business 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 Cybersecurity 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… — Franklin Foer American Copy Share Image
My dad has been in the fight against monopoly since it wasn't so cool. I'm sure I've turned to the subject to… — Franklin Foer Cool Copy Share Image
The first book advance I got was paid out in thirds. And over time, as I've had different deals, the advances get… — Franklin Foer Book Copy Share Image
As parents, we have kids who reflect back to us our addiction to devices, and we have all sorts of worries about… — Franklin Foer Addiction Copy Share Image
“Intellectuals, freelance writers, investigative journalists, and midlist novelists are the analog to the family farmers, who have always struggled but simply can’t… — Franklin Foer Agriculture Copy Share Image
“(The paradox of Italian soccer). As everyone knows, Italian men are the most foppish representatives of their sex on the planet. They… — Franklin Foer Football Copy Share Image
“The contemplative life remains freely available to us through our choices—what we read and buy, how we commit to leisure and self-improvement,… — Franklin Foer Contemplative Copy Share Image
When the mayor of Sao Paulo wanted to increase bus fare by 21 centavos in 2013, the country erupted in the largest… — Franklin Foer Bus 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… — Franklin Foer Decision Copy Share Image
Computer scientists have built a set of massive DNS databases, which provide fragmentary histories of communications flows, in part to create an… — Franklin Foer Bad Copy Share Image
It's very un-American to say nice things about elites. Elites are often terrible. It's not like we've ever had a perfect set… — Franklin Foer Country Copy Share Image
Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin.… — Franklin Foer Concrete 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 Ambitious goals 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 Facebook 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… — Franklin Foer Black people 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 Business Copy Share Image
“Critics of soccer contend that the game inherently culminates in death and destruction. They argue that the game gives life to tribal… — Franklin Foer Death Copy Share Image
“Facebook is a carefully managed top-down system, not a robust public square. It mimics some of the patterns of conversation, but that’s… — Franklin Foer Twitter Copy Share Image
“there's a long history of resistance movements igniting in the soccer stadium. In the Red Star Revolution, Draza, Krle, and the other… — Franklin Foer Ground zero Copy Share Image
“As the Protestants celebrate a goal, they're egged on by the team captain, a long-haired Italian called Lorenzo Amoruso, who has the… — Franklin Foer Football Copy Share Image
“Soccer's appeal lay in its opposition to the other popular sports. For children of the sixties, there was something abhorrent about enrolling… — Franklin Foer American football 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 Bottom line 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 Political power Copy Share Image
“Google’s trucks would pull up to libraries and quietly walk away with boxes of books to be quickly scanned and returned. “If… — Franklin Foer Business Copy Share Image
An article in the 'Moscow Times' described Trump as the city's first grand builder since Stalin. — Franklin Foer Article Copy Share Image
I have really no desire to go back into management ever again. — Franklin Foer Again Copy Share Image
The greatest miracle of the Internet is that it exists - the second greatest is that it persists. — Franklin Foer Greatest Copy Share Image
“The mathematicians and engineers may have disavowed the existence of God, but they placed themselves in a celestial role of giving life… — Franklin Foer Existence of god Copy Share Image
Brazil is a country largely resistant to ideology. This is a strange fact given its founding by followers of the French philosopher… — Franklin Foer Brazil Copy Share Image
