Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.
Evgeny MorozovIf you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone.
Evgeny MorozovOnce 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 MorozovTechnological 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.
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