Quotes by Evgeny Morozov

About Evgeny Morozov:

Evgeny Morozov is a writer and researcher of Belarusian origin who studies political and social implications of technology. He is currently a senior editor at The New Republic.
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North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways to shape it in accord with their own narratives - or risk having their narratives shape...

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Faster roads are not always safer roads - and virtually all societies, democratic or authoritarian, prefer safety over speed, even if many of their citizens enjoy fast driving.

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Would you like all of your Facebook friends to sift through your trash? A group of designers from Britain and Germany think that you might. Meet BinCam: a 'smart' trash bin that aims to revolutionize the recycling process.

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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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I'm rarely invited to start-up parties, but who cares about their trinkets and apps anyway?

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The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy.

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If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone.

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There is something almost sacred about the Internet. I'm trying to secularize it.

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

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In Google's world, public space is just something that stands between your house and the well-reviewed restaurant that you are dying to get to.

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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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Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats.

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I spent two years in Palo Alto - what an awful, suffocating place for those of us who don't care about yoga, yogurts and start-ups - and now I have moved to Cambridge, MA - which, in many respects, is like Palo Alto but a bit snarkier.

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For many oppositional movements, the Internet, while providing the opportunity to distribute information more quickly and cheaper, may have actually made their struggle more difficult in the long run.

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Cyberattacks have become a permanent fixture on the international scene because they have become easy and cheap to launch. Basic computer literacy and a modest budget can go a long way toward invading a country's cyberspace.

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Whether greater cybersecurity requires a greater sacrifice of our digital freedoms is an important debate that we should be having, preferably with all the facts in front of us.

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

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Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmark of responsibility, has no place in Silicon Valley.

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Sleephackers go to bed with sensors on their wrists and foreheads and maintain detailed electronic sleep diaries, which they often share online. To shift between sleep phases, sleephackers experiment with various diets, room and body temperatures, an...

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When someone at the State Department proclaims Facebook to be the most organic tool for promoting democracy the world has ever seen - that's a direct quote - it may help in the short run by getting more people onto Facebook by making it more popular ...

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Once Google is selected to run the infrastructure on which we are changing the world, Google will be there for ever. Democratic accountability will not be prevalent. You cannot file a public information request about Google.

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Author Bio

  • NameEvgeny Morozov
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • Born1984
  • CountryBelarus
  • ProfessionWriter; Journalist