The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep track of people in the camps, ecological disasters.
Evgeny MorozovWikiLeaks is what happens when the entire US government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.
Evgeny MorozovMilitary commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online.
Evgeny MorozovIf you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone.
Evgeny MorozovA faithful lifehacker would use technology to avoid dead time and move on to the entertaining, more gratifying activities as soon as possible.
Evgeny MorozovWe'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.
Evgeny Morozov