“To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its image.” NeedsPoliticalSocialInternetLessonsInstitutionsUrgesSocial Institutions Author:Evgeny Morozov
“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.” PoliticalChallengesPartyEnemyDemocracyMediaActivityFunctionMurderCorruptionOppositionCivil SocietyUncoveringOpposition PartiesPolitical Enemies Author:Evgeny Morozov
“If we don't like rent control, we ought to oppose it on political and social grounds - and not just by arguing that, thanks to smartphones and social networks, we can create new, more efficient markets for matching short-term renters with tenants.” IfsPoliticalSocialTermOughtArguingThanksEfficientShort TermSocial NetworkMatchingSmartphonesTenantsEfficient MarketsRent Control Author:Evgeny Morozov
“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.” PeopleHas BeensAgePoliticalSocialMoralTechnologyConsequenceConcernedPanicTriggersNew TechnologySociologists Author:Evgeny Morozov
“My fear is that many institutions will eventually alter how they treat people who refuse to self-track. There are all sorts of political and moral implications here, and I'm not sure that we have grappled with any of them.” PeopleSelfPoliticalMoralTreatsInstitutionsTrackRefuseNot SureImplications Author:Evgeny Morozov
“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.” BigsPoliticalChoicesConsequenceShopsOnlinePizzaPersonalization Author:Evgeny Morozov
“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.” Has BeensPoliticalInterestTechnologySeparationTriumphValleysSiliconImplicitSilicon Valley Author:Evgeny Morozov
“The message I'm trying to send is that technology is political, and that many decisions that look like decisions about technology actually are not at all about technology - they are about politics, and they need to be scrutinized as closely as we would scrutinize decisions about politics.” NeedsTryingLooksPoliticalDecisionTechnologyMessagesScrutinize Author:Evgeny Morozov
“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.” KindPlayPoliticalSocialForgetEnemyRolesImpossibleGrantedHypocrisyAmbiguitySocial LifePartisanshipInefficiency Author:Evgeny Morozov
