Evgeny Morozov quote: "As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable."

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That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but...
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Certification has now become a risk and threatens our business plan.
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The bigger the network, the harder it is to leave. Many users find it too daunting to start afresh o...
EVGENY MOROZOV

Diplomacy is, perhaps, one element of the U.S. government that should not be subject to the demands ...
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Steve Jobs was notoriously blunt about products he found wanting, but his attack on Flash - Adobe...
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Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify...
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If China's expansion into Africa and Russia's into Latin America and the former Soviet Union...
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For all its shortcomings, Wikipedia does have strong governance and deliberative mechanisms; anyone ...
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I spent two years in Palo Alto - what an awful, suffocating place for those of us who don't care...
EVGENY MOROZOV

Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from...
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The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call c...
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A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activit...
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Once Google is selected to run the infrastructure on which we are changing the world, Google will be...
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One possible future for WikiLeaks is to morph into a gigantic media intermediary - perhaps, even som...
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The decentralized nature of online conversations often makes it easier to manipulate public opinion,...
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Just as Josef K, the protagonist of Kafka's 'The Trial,' awoke one day to discover that ...
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Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.
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We need to start seeing privacy as a commons - as some kind of a public good that can get depleted a...
EVGENY MOROZOV

It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lowe...
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As leakers take great risks in releasing information, assuring them that they are not sacrificing th...
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I have no problem with technological solutions to social problems. The key question for me is, '...
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North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet c...
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Faster roads are not always safer roads - and virtually all societies, democratic or authoritarian, ...
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Look at something like cooking. Now, you would hear a lot about smart kitchens and augmented kitchen...
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The newspaper offers something very different from Google's aggregators. It offers a value syste...
EVGENY MOROZOV

This marketization of personal information is a big mistake.
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Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also it...
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The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors s...
EVGENY MOROZOV

There is this huge Roma problem in Europe. There are a lot of Romas who are discriminated against in...
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The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of...
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Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become ...
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Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables ...
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Why does crime happen? Well, you might say that it's because youths don't have jobs. Or you ...
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I went to SXSW in 2011. God, that was awful. I mean, I only went because my publisher wanted me to p...
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You actually see liberals checking 'Fox News,' if only to know what the conservatives are th...
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Cyberattacks have become a permanent fixture on the international scene because they have become eas...
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We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or ineffic...
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My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. So...
EVGENY MOROZOV

You know, it's not a given that there is an 'online' and 'offline' world out the...
EVGENY MOROZOV

'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of techno...
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In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number ...
EVGENY MOROZOV

I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a ...
EVGENY MOROZOV

One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of t...
EVGENY MOROZOV

Would you like all of your Facebook friends to sift through your trash? A group of designers from Br...
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There are good reasons why we don't want everyone to learn nuclear physics, medicine or how fina...
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When we can commit a crime, we can also trigger debate. Cases go to courts. Media start covering the...
EVGENY MOROZOV

As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to l...
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If WikiLeaks were a for-profit company, determining its real value would be a nearly impossible task...
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To understand the limits and opportunities of algorithms in the context of artistic creation, we nee...
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The message I'm trying to send is that technology is political, and that many decisions that loo...
EVGENY MOROZOV

To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our pol...
EVGENY MOROZOV

When someone at the State Department proclaims Facebook to be the most organic tool for promoting de...
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If you use your smart toothbrush, the data can be immediately sent to your dentist and your insuranc...
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Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmar...
EVGENY MOROZOV

Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable.
EVGENY MOROZOV

Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.
EVGENY MOROZOV

Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directl...
EVGENY MOROZOV

You know, anyone who wears glasses, in one sense or another, is a cyborg.
EVGENY MOROZOV

If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limi...
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ELLEN GUSTAFSON

Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed ad...
MATTHEW SHULTZ

As technology has advanced, people tend to get a little numb to the risk, taking more risk than they...
DAVID GEORGE

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
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SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

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ROBERT HEANEY

These animals are smart enough to observe behaviors and imitate them.
INGRID PORTON

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AMOS KORCZYN

That smart card would be very intrusive in terms of following the employees' movements around the bu...
BARRY STEINHARDT

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DAVID JOYNER

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ALETHEIA LUNA

You can't sit on people, and you can't put pressure on their chest wall. As soon as you are suppress...
COREY SLOVIS

You can't sit on people and you can't put pressure on their chest wall. As soon as you are suppressi...
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Our values and behaviors are incongruent, and this incongruence causes us a certain degree of moral ...
MELANIE JOY

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CAROL GREIG

Interest rate cuts have an effect in stimulating an economy by directly or indirectly making someone...
EVAN DAVIS

Once you don't vote your ideals ... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis ...
RALPH NADER

Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.

The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS

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KAREN CHUPKA

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

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CRAIG MONTGOMERY

The thought of security bears within it an essential risk. A state which has security as its sole ta...
GIORGIO AGAMBEN

Mr. Morozov has not received any charges in hitting a policeman. He himself also claims that there w...
MARIA ZAKHAROVA

It runs the risk of undermining the manner in which we consider the cases. Certainly it will change ...
CLARENCE THOMAS

So many old landmarks have been set in motion that they have become misleading as guides. Newness ha...
MAX WAYS

We're hearing about more challenging behaviors, such as hitting other kids.
BARBARA WILLER

We were aware that there were more extremist elements and we acted within our organization to clean ...
MATT O'CONNOR

Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral bas...
RALPH NADER

As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.

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