As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy is growing. Evgeny Morozov More Quotes by Evgeny Morozov More Quotes From Evgeny Morozov 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. Evgeny Morozov degrees technology government We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy. Evgeny Morozov political hypocrisy play The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is done not just openly but socially and collaboratively. Evgeny Morozov reading listening book 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 with dissidents. Evgeny Morozov democracy running people The global triumph of American technology has been predicated on the implicit separation between the business interests of Silicon Valley and the political interests of Washington. Evgeny Morozov triumph political technology The decentralized nature of online conversations often makes it easier to manipulate public opinion, both domestically and globally. Regimes that once relied on centralized systems of media control can now deliver ideological messages more subtly, with the help of little-known intermediaries like anonymous commenters on websites. Evgeny Morozov public-opinion media littles Personalization can be very useful in some contexts but very harmful in others. Searching for pizza online, it's probably OK to keep showing the same pizza shop as your No. 1 choice. I don't see any big political consequences out of that. Evgeny Morozov online political choices 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. Evgeny Morozov google accountability running A faithful lifehacker would use technology to avoid dead time and move on to the entertaining, more gratifying activities as soon as possible. Evgeny Morozov faithful technology moving Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked to such loans isn't. Evgeny Morozov loan noble goal Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online. Evgeny Morozov military want war Mobile phones are one of the most insecure devices that were ever available, so they're very easy to trace; they're very easy to tap. Evgeny Morozov insecure phones easy Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats. Evgeny Morozov candid diplomats wikileaks The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy. Evgeny Morozov empowering groups democracy You know, anyone who wears glasses, in one sense or another, is a cyborg. Evgeny Morozov cyborg glasses knows A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties. Evgeny Morozov media political party One possible future for WikiLeaks is to morph into a gigantic media intermediary - perhaps, even something of a clearing house for investigative reporting - where even low-level leaks would be matched with the appropriate journalists to pursue and report on them and, perhaps, even with appropriate NGOs to advocate on their causes. Evgeny Morozov wikileaks media house I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own. Evgeny Morozov privacy government want It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank. Evgeny Morozov genius chance easy 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. Evgeny Morozov google space house
