I'm rarely invited to start-up parties, but who cares about their trinkets and apps anyway? Evgeny Morozov More Quotes by Evgeny Morozov More Quotes From Evgeny Morozov This marketization of personal information is a big mistake. Evgeny Morozov informationbigsmistake For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness. Evgeny Morozov selfishnessinnovationidols While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia. Evgeny Morozov ethicalinsomniasleep 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." Evgeny Morozov accountabilityinnovationvocabulary Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing. Evgeny Morozov publishingendsbook Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable. Evgeny Morozov googlenetworkingsocial 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. Evgeny Morozov dataorderpast The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes. Evgeny Morozov mediaegyptiandying Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic. Evgeny Morozov democraticrevolutionmay 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. Evgeny Morozov technologybeliefpay Surveillance cameras might reduce crime - even though the evidence here is mixed - but no studies show that they result in greater happiness of everyone involved. Evgeny Morozov surveillance-camerasstudymight Steve Jobs was notoriously blunt about products he found wanting, but his attack on Flash - Adobe's popular technology for playing multimedia content inside a browser - was particularly vicious. Claiming it was buggy and insecure, Jobs banned it from the iPad. Evgeny Morozov insecuretechnologyjobs Why does crime happen? Well, you might say that it's because youths don't have jobs. Or you might say that's because the doors of our buildings are not fortified enough. Given some limited funds to spend, you can either create yet another national employment program or you can equip houses with even better cameras, sensors, and locks. Evgeny Morozov housedoorsjobs 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. Evgeny Morozov iranrealamerica Russian young people spend countless hours online downloading videos and having a very nice digital entertainment lifestyle, which does not necessarily turn them into the next Che Guevara. Evgeny Morozov nicedoepeople Simply getting a country's population online is not going to trigger a revolution in critical thinking. Evgeny Morozov populationcountrythinking When we can commit a crime, we can also trigger debate. Cases go to courts. Media start covering the cases. But once you build smart environments where, if you meet a certain probabilistic profile, you won't even be allowed to board a bus, let alone commit a crime, we're perpetuating existing laws so they face no challenges or revision. Evgeny Morozov smartmedialaw It's true that virtually all new technologies do trigger what sociologists would call 'moral panics,' that there are a lot of people who are concerned with the possible political and social consequences, and that this has been true throughout the ages. Evgeny Morozov politicaltechnologypeople There is this absurd assumption that the revitalisation of the public sphere is always a good thing. I think people tend to confuse 'civic' and 'civil,' and they believe that everything that is done by citizens is necessarily a good thing because you build a network, an association. Evgeny Morozov believepeoplethinking When it is about technology, there is this tendency to just reject all criticism as being anti-technological and anti-modern. I think this is very unhealthy. Evgeny Morozov technologycriticismthinking
