189 Quotes by Evgeny Morozov

The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.

In reality, though, control and centralization are not inherently antithetical to innovation; if we have come to believe the opposite, then "the Internet" is partly to blame.

If the only hammer you are given is the Internet, it's not surprising that every possible social and political problem is presented as an online nail.

We must not fixate on what this new arsenal of digital technologies allows us to do without first inquiring what is worth doing.

If Amazon’s dream of a world without gatekeepers becomes reality, then the company itself will become a powerful gatekeeper.

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.

Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.

Information wants to eat brie.

Who today is mad enough to challenge the virtues of eliminating hypocrisy from politics? Or of providing more information—the direct result of self-tracking—to facilitate decision making? Or of finding new incentives to get people interested in saving humanity, fighting climate change, or participating in politics? Or of decreasing crime? To question the appropriateness of such interventions, it seems, is to question the Enlightenment itself.And yet I feel that such questioning is necessary.