“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.” IfsThinkingHas BeensWould BeTechnologyMankindEvolutionObviousCyborg Author:Evgeny Morozov
“Simply getting a country's population online is not going to trigger a revolution in critical thinking.” ThinkingCountryRevolutionPopulationCriticalOnlineTriggersCritical Thinking Book:The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom Source: The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
“For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use.” ThinkingUseWantedExistenceTechnologyDesignToolsUsersDistractedConvenience Author:Evgeny Morozov
“I think governments will increasingly be tempted to rely on Silicon Valley to solve problems like obesity or climate change because Silicon Valley runs the information infrastructure through which we consume information.” ThinkingProblemGovernmentRunningInformationClimateClimate ChangeSolveRelyValleysTemptedInfrastructureObesitySiliconSilicon Valley Author:Evgeny Morozov
“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.” PeopleThinkingBelieveDoneCitizensGood ThingsAbsurdAssumptionSpheresAssociationCivics Author:Evgeny Morozov
“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.” PeopleThinkingWantRealityRememberWonderfulGroupsPolicyInternetToolsInnovationForeign Policy Author:Evgeny Morozov
“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.” ThinkingTechnologyModernCriticismTendenciesRejectsTechnologicalUnhealthy Author:Evgeny Morozov
“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.” ThinkingMightProcessGroupsSmartAimDesignerGermanyBritainTrashRecycling Author:Evgeny Morozov
“You actually see liberals checking 'Fox News,' if only to know what the conservatives are thinking. And you're seeing conservatives who venture into liberal sources, just to know what 'The New York Times' is thinking.” IfsThinkingKnowsSeeingNew YorkSourceNewsVentureFoxesNew York TimesFox News Author:Evgeny Morozov
“One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of technocracy and the primacy of politics over it would be a well-established truth in need of no further defense.” ThinkingNeedsFirstsWellsWould BePovertyCenturyIntellectualTwentiesDefenseDecadesOver ItPrimacy Book:To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism Source: To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
