Evgeny Morozov
Evgeny Morozov
Evgeny Morozovis a writer and researcher of Belarusian origin who studies political and social implications of technology...
NationalityBelarusian
ProfessionWriter
CountryBelarus
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.
government body wikileaks
WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire US government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.
country hate czech-republic
There is this huge Roma problem in Europe. There are a lot of Romas who are discriminated against in countries like the Czech Republic or Hungary. They are an ethnic minority that in Europe everyone loves to hate.
reality thinking people
There is this group of people who love innovation. Those people want to innovate, and they think the Internet is a wonderful tool for innovation, which is true. But you also have to remember that much of that innovation is constrained within the realities of the foreign policy.
technology pay belief
Technological defeatism - a belief that, since a given technology is here to stay, there's nothing we can do about it other than get on with it and simply adjust our norms - is a persistent feature of social thought about technology. We'll come to pay for it very dearly.