Evgeny Morozov
Evgeny Morozov
Evgeny Morozovis a writer and researcher of Belarusian origin who studies political and social implications of technology...
NationalityBelarusian
ProfessionWriter
CountryBelarus
technology government degrees
Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.
real iran america
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.
past order data
In the past it would take you weeks, if not months, to identify how Iranian activists connect to each other. Now you know how they connect to each other by looking at their Facebook page. KGB ... used to torture in order to get this data.
book ends publishing
Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.
information want brie
Information wants to eat brie.
vocabulary accountability innovation
Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so that instead of discussing the public interest, we are discussing the interests of individual software developers, while claiming that this is a discussion about "innovation" and "progress," not "accountability" or "security."
sleep insomnia ethical
While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.
smart technology practice
Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.
idols innovation selfishness
For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness.
mistake information bigs
This marketization of personal information is a big mistake.
jobs technology self
Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it?
google vision tools
Google’s vision is tools that will do things for you.
technology thinking would-be
If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.
technology thinking
I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.