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Evgeny Morozov
Evgeny Morozov
Writer
Born: 1984
Facebook Internet People Political Technology You
Related authors: Ayn Rand Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Niccolo Machiavelli Thomas Mann Thomas Paine Voltaire
Would you like all of your Facebook friends to sift through your trash? A group of designers from Britain and Germany think that you might. Meet BinCam: a 'smart' trash bin that aims to revolutionize the recycling process. Evgeny Morozov
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You know, anyone who wears glasses, in one sense or another, is a cyborg. Evgeny Morozov
You Glasses Sense Wears Know Another Anyone Who
If we don't like rent control, we ought to oppose it on political and social grounds - and not just by arguing that, thanks to smartphones and social networks, we can create new, more efficient markets for matching short-term renters with tenants. Evgeny Morozov
Political Oppose Thanks Control Ought Markets More Networks Arguing New Like Matching Rent Efficient Just Short-Term Social Create Social Networks Grounds
I'm active on Twitter, and I love my iPad and my Kindle. Evgeny Morozov
Love Active Twitter Kindle iPad
There are good reasons why we don't want everyone to learn nuclear physics, medicine or how financial markets work. Our entire modern project has been about delegating power over us to skilled people who want to do the work and be rewarded accordingly. Evgeny Morozov
Work Good People Physics Financial Power Medicine Everyone Our Project Markets Financial Markets Has-Been Entire About Over Learn How Been Accordingly Modern Rewarded Want Us Skilled Who Reasons Why Nuclear Nuclear Physics
Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server. Evgeny Morozov
Great Cloud Computer Computing Centralization Euphemism Server Services
I don't think love for technology itself breeds change. Evgeny Morozov
Love Technology Change Think Itself Breeds
We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy. Evgeny Morozov
Life Enemy Political Impossible Thought Hypocrisy Too Took Our Kind About Never Like Partisanship Inefficiency Always Been Ambiguity Get Roles Forgetting Social Them Social Life Granted Rid Play Deeply Things
We need to start seeing privacy as a commons - as some kind of a public good that can get depleted as too many people treat it carelessly or abandon it too eagerly. What is privacy for? This question needs an urgent answer. Evgeny Morozov
Good Needs Privacy People Treat Too Many People Too Carelessly Abandon Kind Seeing Some Answer Question Get Depleted Public Commons Urgent Public Good Many Eagerly Start Need
The Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda. Evgeny Morozov
Internet Made Propaganda More Cheaper Spread Effective Much
As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy is growing. Evgeny Morozov
Life World Internet Launch More Small More And More Potential Economic Attacks Economic Life Hackers Devastating Economy Bands Growing World Economy
Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses. Evgeny Morozov
Weaknesses Main Also Anonymity Greatest Interconnectedness Social Media Assets
WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire U.S. government is forced to go through a full-body scanner. Evgeny Morozov
Government Wikileaks Entire Through Forced Go Happens
The message I'm trying to send is that technology is political, and that many decisions that look like decisions about technology actually are not at all about technology - they are about politics, and they need to be scrutinized as closely as we would scrutinize decisions about politics. Evgeny Morozov
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When it is about technology, there is this tendency to just reject all criticism as being anti-technological and anti-modern. I think this is very unhealthy. Evgeny Morozov
Technology Criticism Think About Tendency Very Just Being Unhealthy Reject
I spent two years in Palo Alto - what an awful, suffocating place for those of us who don't care about yoga, yogurts and start-ups - and now I have moved to Cambridge, MA - which, in many respects, is like Palo Alto but a bit snarkier. Evgeny Morozov
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I have no problem with technological solutions to social problems. The key question for me is, 'Who gets to implement them?' and, 'What kinds of politics of reform do technological solutions smuggle through the back door?' Evgeny Morozov
Politics Me Problem Key Problems Back Back Door Solutions Kinds No Problem Through Implement Smuggle Question Reform Gets Door Social Them Who Social Problems Technological
I'm not on Facebook. I have a sort of anonymous account that I check, like, once every six months every time Facebook rolls out a new feature. Evgeny Morozov
Time Facebook Every Every Time Once Months Out Feature Check New Like Anonymous Sort Account Rolls Six
For many oppositional movements, the Internet, while providing the opportunity to distribute information more quickly and cheaper, may have actually made their struggle more difficult in the long run. Evgeny Morozov
Struggle Opportunity Internet Made Long Difficult Run Distribute More Long Run Cheaper Providing Quickly May Movements Information While Many Actually
The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is being said online. The Department of Commerce is going after piracy. At home, the American government wants anything but Internet freedom. Evgeny Morozov
Government Home Freedom Director Internet Build Doors Back Valley Visiting Has-Been Silicon Silicon Valley Online Said Been Spy Commerce Piracy American Department Going Being After Anything Wants American Government Them Asking Companies
Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook. Evgeny Morozov
Facebook People Stupid Young Easily Could Dictators Regimes Young People
Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic. Evgeny Morozov
Revolution Democratic May
For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use. Evgeny Morozov
Technology Hide Design Thinking Tools Distracted About Existence Convenience Wanted Much Use Users
If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone. Evgeny Morozov
You Revolution Everyone Never Arrest Up Authorities Want Public Plan Show
Apple has an opening to say, 'The tools we are selling to you will enable you to do things rather than do things for you.' Google's vision is tools that will do things for you. Evgeny Morozov
You Vision Will Google Tools Say Rather Opening Enable Selling Than Apple Things
This is the real tragedy of America's 'Internet freedom agenda': It's going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will pay for the hypocrisy that drove it from the very beginning. Evgeny Morozov
Freedom Internet Will Hypocrisy Beginning Pay Drove Real Iran Tragedy Very America Going China Agenda Who
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