Evgeny Morozov
Evgeny Morozov
Evgeny Morozovis a writer and researcher of Belarusian origin who studies political and social implications of technology...
NationalityBelarusian
ProfessionWriter
CountryBelarus
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We can now with Google Glasses record everything around us, and we can make sure that nothing is ever forgotten because everything is stored somewhere in Google servers or somewhere else.
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If you use your smart toothbrush, the data can be immediately sent to your dentist and your insurance company, but it also allows someone from the NSA to know what was in your mouth three weeks ago.
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The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to admit its downside.
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My fear is that many institutions will eventually alter how they treat people who refuse to self-track. There are all sorts of political and moral implications here, and I'm not sure that we have grappled with any of them.
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Look at something like cooking. Now, you would hear a lot about smart kitchens and augmented kitchens. And what do those smart kitchens actually do? They police what's happening inside the kitchen. They have cameras that distinguish ingredients one from each other and that tell you that shouldn't mix this ingredient with another ingredient.
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In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict.
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Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.
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To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its image.
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The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy.
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The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.
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Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses.
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Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable.
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Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.
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Much of the real computer talent today is concentrated in the private sector.