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.
I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existen… - Evgeny Morozov
I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existen…
- Evgeny Morozov
Technology changes all the time; human nature hardly ever. - Evgeny Morozov
Technology changes all the time; human nature hardly ever.
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. - Evgeny Morozov
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.
'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfe… - Evgeny Morozov
'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfe…
In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict. - Evgeny Morozov
In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict.
The great temptation of Big Data is that we can stop worrying about comprehension and focus on preventive action instead. Instead of wasting precious… - Evgeny Morozov
The great temptation of Big Data is that we can stop worrying about comprehension and focus on preventive action instead. Instead of wasting precious…
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 poli… - Evgeny Morozov
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 poli…
Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice. - Evgeny Morozov
Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.
[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 it may ac… - Evgeny Morozov
[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 it may ac…
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