If you're presented with choices that steer you toward your worst instincts, that's what you'll choose. If I'm presented with Snickers bars,… — Franklin Foer Choice Copy Share Image
People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, gatekeepers were newspaper publishers and magazine editors and people who ran radio stations and news networks. And they… — Franklin Foer Gatekeepers Copy Share Image
“He poses the existential question of the modern soccer hooligan: “If football violence doesn’t take place in the stadium, is it even… — Franklin Foer Football Copy Share Image
If I'm reading my Facebook feed, it's using algorithms, procedures, and methods to give me what I want, or what it thinks… — Franklin Foer Business Copy Share Image
“it's the most familial-based societies where the sense of obligation is strongest, that breed the worst nepotism and cronyism.” — Franklin Foer Cronyism Copy Share Image
“Carl Page had his own idea about how to go about it. He posited that procedures contained in Robert’s Rules of Order,… — Franklin Foer Technology Copy Share Image
“Just as Nabisco and Kraft wanted to change how we eat and what we eat, Amazon, Facebook, and Google aspire to alter… — Franklin Foer Change Copy Share Image
And I know that sounds outrageous, but it's true. Such monopolies as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple are trying to stay with us… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Booksellers initially thought of Amazon as their best friend. They were coming in, and they were challenging Barnes and Noble, and Borders,… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Michael Bradley has the stuff of leadership; he works hard and can break up the opponent's play. However, that's not enough to… — Franklin Foer Attitude Copy Share Image
Hunting for malware requires highly specialized knowledge of the intricacies of the domain name system - the protocol that allows us to… — Franklin Foer Communication Copy Share Image
The biggest problem is that Facebook and Google are these giant feedback loops that give people what they want to hear. And… — Franklin Foer 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
Brazil is strewn with ruins of projects - refineries, power plants - begun but never finished. Most of this investment never landed… — Franklin Foer Art Copy Share Image
I think what's happening with book advances is something that most of the world just doesn't fully appreciate, especially when it comes… — Franklin Foer 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
“(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
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
When the mayor of Sao Paulo wanted to increase bus fare by 21 centavos in 2013, the country erupted in the largest… — Franklin Foer 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
Computer scientists have built a set of massive DNS databases, which provide fragmentary histories of communications flows, in part to create an… — Franklin Foer 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 Copy Share Image
Trump considers himself such a virile example of masculinity that he's qualified to serve as the ultimate arbiter of femininity. He relishes… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
From the start, the promise of Jurgen Klinsmann as manager of the U.S. men's national team was revolution: gritty, plodding American soccer… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Of course, formulas always existed in journalism. When I was just getting into the business, 'Time' and 'Newsweek' knew if they could… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Apple was very important in terms of disrupting the music business and remaking the television business. They made it harder for people… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Putin has made a habit of supporting far-right candidates who undermine his foes in Europe; perhaps he never could have imagined such… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
When I started off in journalism, you knew there was an audience out there and that you wanted people to read what… — Franklin Foer Ability Copy Share Image
“But if you wanted to replicate the working of the human brain, you had to intimately understand your model. AI, in other… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
We think of Netflix as a great personalization machine. It understands how you love French midcentury cinema and British murder mysteries, so… — Franklin Foer British Copy Share Image
In 2012, Vladimir Putin returned to the presidency after a four-year, constitutionally imposed hiatus. It wasn't the smoothest of transitions. To his… — Franklin Foer Comeback Copy Share Image
“Herbert Simon, the Nobel-winning economist, took these inchoate sentiments and explained them rigorously: “What information consumes is rather obvious. It consumes the… — Franklin Foer Data Copy Share Image
Along with Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple, these companies are in a race to become our 'personal assistant.' They want to wake us… — Franklin Foer Artificial intelligence Copy Share Image
Google helps us sort the Internet by providing a sense of hierarchy to information. Facebook uses its algorithms and its intricate understanding… — Franklin Foer Book publishing Copy Share Image
Mark Zuckerberg has never really had pressure put on him. He's an engineer, and he's created this perfect system that is Facebook,… — Franklin Foer Beauty Copy Share Image
What I worry about ultimately is that when we're stripped of our privacy, when we're stripped of free will, when we start… — Franklin Foer Computers Copy Share Image
Who can complain about the price that Google is charging you? Or who can complain about Amazon's prices; they are simply lower… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
If you think of data as kind of an x-ray of our soul, it's this window into our minds that the company… — Franklin Foer Business Copy Share Image
Trump has emphatically denied ties to Russia - a claim refuted by his Twitter feed and a cursory Google search. Putin says… — Franklin Foer Computers Copy Share Image
