To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
by Evgeny Morozov · 15 Nov 2013 · 606pp · 157,120 words
Attempt at a ‘Compositionist Manifesto,’” New Literary History 41, no. 3 (2010): 471–490. 6 a subject I address at length in The Net Delusion: Evgeny Morozov, The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom (New York: PublicAffairs, 2012), 308–311. 6 In his influential book The Rhetoric of Reaction: Albert
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those who know already”: Oakeshott, “Political Education.” 11 what’s going on in our kitchens: this section draws considerably on an earlier article of mine: Evgeny Morozov, “Stay Out of My Kitchen, Robots,” Slate, August 27, 2012, http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/08/why_you_don_t_want
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. 6 (September 2012): 726–743; I’ve written about Sørensen’s research in my Slate column, from which the following few paragraphs are drawn: see Evgeny Morozov, “Kickstarter Will Not Save Artists from the Entertainment Industry’s Shackles,” Slate, September 25, 2012http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/09/kickstarter
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, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room (New York: Basic Books, 2012), 17. Also, this is my review of Weinberger’s book: Evgeny Morozov, “What Lies Beneath,” The Daily, January 1, 2012, http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/01/01/010112-opinions-books-weinberger-morozov-1–3. 38 “a
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., 125. 162 “We are entering a world”: ibid., 7. 163 already employ algorithms to produce stories automatically: for more on this, see my Slate column: Evgeny Morozov, “A Robot Stole My Pulitzer,” Slate, March 19, 2012, http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/03/narrative_science_robot_journalists_customized_news
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the ugliest words in the English language: I’ve discussed the myth of disintermediation in a Slate column, from which this section partly draws. See Evgeny Morozov, “Muzzled by the Bots,” Slate, October 26, 2012, http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/10/disintermediation_we_aren_t_seeing_fewer_gatekeepers
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the Room Is the Room (New York: Basic Books, 2012), 35. I’ve discussed Weinberger’s claims about Hunch in my review of his book: Evgeny Morozov, “What Lies Beneath,” The Daily, January 1, 2012, http://www.thedaily.com/page/202/01/01/010112-opinions-books-weinberger-morozov-1–3. 266 “it
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Economic Forum, Devos Wu, Tim Wulff, Bettina Yelp YouTube Yu, Harlan Zagat Zamzee Zichermann, Gabe Zittrain, Jonathan and digital preemption Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerman, Ethan Zynga Evgeny Morozov (@evgenymorozov) is the author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, a New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and winner of
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Washington Post as “a redoubtable gadfly.” His legacy will endure in the books to come. Peter Osnos, Founder and Editor-at-Large Copyright © 2013 by Evgeny Morozov. Published in the United States by PublicAffairs™, a Member of the Perseus Books Group All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced
The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
by Evgeny Morozov · 16 Nov 2010 · 538pp · 141,822 words
Xi Jingping Xing Xinhua News Agency Yahoo Yakemenko, Boris Yandex Money Yevtushenko, Yevgeny YouTube Yugoslavia Zimbabwe Zittrain, Jonathan Zizek, Slavoj Zuckerman, Ethan ABOUT THE AUTHOR Evgeny Morozov is a contributing editor to Foreign Policy and Boston Review and a Schwartz Fellow at the New American Foundation. Morozov is currently also a visiting
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is certainly not the proudest moment in my career, especially as all those nuances were lost on most media covering the events. Copyright © 2011 by Evgeny Morozov Published in the United States by PublicAffairs™, a member of the Perseus Books Group. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
by W. David Marx · 18 Nov 2025 · 642pp · 142,332 words
-wing executives and banning a few websites, however, could not prevent all bad actors from using digital tools to sow political chaos and division. Academic Evgeny Morozov had long predicted these developments. Morozov grew up in Belarus and began his career at an NGO working to promote democracy through independent journalism. His
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VR, May 10, 2017, https://www.roadtovr.com/oculus-founder-palmer-luckey-first-interview-since-leaving-oculus-facebook. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Academic Evgeny Morozov: Noam Cohen, “The Internet’s Verbal Contrarian,” New York Times, August 14, 2013, https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/15/business/media/the-internets-verbal
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-contrarian.html. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “internet does not”: Evgeny Morozov, “Two Decades of the Web: A Utopia No Longer,” Prospect, June 22, 2011, https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/technology/49273/two-decades-of-the
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-utopia-no-longer. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT industry dismissed Morozov: Cohen, “Internet’s Verbal Contrarian.” GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “Teflon industry”: Evgeny Morozov, “Why We Are Allowed to Hate Silicon Valley,” Frankfurter Allgemeine, November 11, 2013, https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/the-internet-ideology-why-we
Value of Everything: An Antidote to Chaos The
by Mariana Mazzucato · 25 Apr 2018 · 457pp · 125,329 words
into areas of our lives - our homes, our vehicles, even our private relationships - that were previously beyond its scope and to commodify them.65 As Evgeny Morozov has warned, it risks turning us all into ‘perpetual hustlers',66 with all of our lives up for sale, while at the same time undermining
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, for example, are unhappy with the conditions Amazon insists upon and are asking for better ones. But they have no leverage at all, because - as Evgeny Morozov puts it - ‘there is no second Amazon they can turn to'.72 The powerful network effects in the two-sided market have entrenched these companies
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. J. Sandel, What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (London and New York: Allen Lane and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013). 66. Evgeny Morozov, ‘Don't believe the hype, the “sharing economy” masks a failing economy', the Guardian, 28 September 2014: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/28
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/sharing-economy-internet-hype-benefits-overstated-evgeny-morozov; Evgeny Morozov, ‘Cheap cab ride? You must have missed Uber's true cost', the Guardian, 31 January 2016: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/31/cheap
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-cab- ride-uber-true-cost-google-wealth-taxation 67. Evgeny Morozov, ‘Where Uber and Amazon rule: welcome to the world of the platform', the Guardian, 7 June 2015: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/07
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interpretation of the so-called ‘new economy'. 77. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/04/data-populists-must-seize-information-for-benefit-of-all-evgeny-morozov 78. H. A. Simon, ‘Public administration in today's world of organizations and markets', PS: Political Science and Politics, December 2000, p. 756. 79. https
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“sharing economy” masks a failing economy', the Guardian, 28 September 2014: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/28/sharing- economy-internet-hype-benefits-overstated-evgeny-morozov Morozov, E., ‘Silicon Valley likes to promise “digital socialism” - but it is selling a fairy tale', the Guardian, 28 February 2015. Morozov, E., ‘Where Uber
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of us all', the Guardian, 4 December 2016: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/04/data- populists-must-seize-information-for-benefit-of-all-evgeny-morozov Moulton, B. R., The System of National Accounts for the New Economy: What Should Change? (Washington, DC: Bureau of Economic Analysis, US Department of Commerce
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech
by Jamie Susskind · 3 Sep 2018 · 533pp
and controlled every aspect of human existence.27 Some writers have tried to pin down what they see as the ideology of our own time. Evgeny Morozov, for instance, has written of the ‘Google Doctrine’ (‘the enthusiastic belief in the liberating power of technology accompanied by the irresistible urge to enlist Silicon
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general use or subject to constraints. It could be purchased and held by the state. It could be rented, ‘shared’, or loaned for charitable purposes. Evgeny Morozov suggests that it could accrue to a ‘national data fund, co-owned by all citizens’ with commercial access subject to heavy competition and regulation.75
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News" VK.COM/WSNWS Notes 369 27. E. M. Forster, The Machine Stops (London: Penguin, 2011). 28. Evgeny Morozov, The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World (London: Penguin, 2011), xiii. 29. Ibid. 30. Evgeny Morozov, To Save Everything, Click Here:Technology, Solutionism, and the Urge to Fix Problems That Don’t Exist
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://www.nesta.org.uk/sites/ default/files/digital_democracy.pdf> (accessed 1 December 2017). 22. Full Fact <https://fullfact.org/> (accessed 1 December 2017). 23. Evgeny Morozov, To Save Everything Click Here:Technology, Solutionism, and the Urge to Fix Problems that Don’t Exist (London: Penguin, 2014), 119; Andy Greenberg, ‘Now Anyone
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general point is the same. 73. Allen, Technology and Inequality, Kindle Locations 2600–2601. 74. Allen, Technology and Inequality, Kindle Locations 2592, 2645–2647. 75. Evgeny Morozov, ‘To Tackle Google’s Power, Regulators Have to Go After its Ownership of Data’, The Guardian, 2 July 2017. <https:// www.theguardian.com/technology/2017
Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change From the Cult of Technology
by Kentaro Toyama · 25 May 2015 · 494pp · 116,739 words
than ever.” His book is ominously subtitled What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. In The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, Evgeny Morozov catalogs the myriad ways in which the Internet boosts, rather than contains, the power of repressive regimes: in China, social media is a tool for
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for health systems in public health, with the social worker’s idea of social development, with Easterly’s problem-solving systems in international development, with Evgeny Morozov’s polemic against technological solutionism, with Diane Ravitch and David L. Kirp’s critique of quick-fix approaches to American education, with 1980s communitarianism and
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Brockman, Joseph Calamia, Amy Caldwell, Laurie Harting, Jeff Kehoe, Rafe Sagalyn, Jeevan Sivasubramaniam, Anna Sproul-Latimer, Andrew Stuart, and Elizabeth Wales. Authors Ben Mezrich and Evgeny Morozov provided timely advice. Thank you. I’m also grateful to Patrick Newell for inviting me to speak at the beautifully organized TEDxTokyo in 2010 (http
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: Shrink-Wrapped Quick Fixes Technology as an Exemplar of the Packaged Intervention 1.My use of the term “packaged interventions” is very similar to what Evgeny Morozov (2013) calls “technological solutions” and what William Easterly (2014) calls “technical” or “technocratic solutions.” I didn’t want to use the word “solution,” though, since
The Best Business Writing 2013
by Dean Starkman · 1 Jan 2013 · 514pp · 152,903 words
Los Angeles Times Part VI. Big Think 15. Trade-offs Between Inequality, Productivity, and Employment Steve Randy Waldman Interfluidity 16. The Naked and the TED Evgeny Morozov The New Republic Part VII. Adventures in Finance 17. Wall Street Bonus Withdrawal Means Trading Aspen for Coupons Max Abelson Bloomberg 18. The Tale of
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” was, and why it was such a debacle for JPMorgan Chase, Matt Levine will walk you through it like no one else has done. And Evgeny Morozov, master of the highbrow takedown, flays and fricassees the vacuousness that often passes as wisdom promulgated under the TED brand. Try to read it without
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substitute for the human capital that every third-world slum dweller acquires, the capacity and confidence to improvise and get by with next to nothing. Evgeny Morozov 16. The Naked and the TED The New Republic No one has mastered the art of the long takedown review quite like
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Evgeny Morozov. In taking on some new e-books published by the increasingly ubiquitous TED conference brand (Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization, by
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31, 2012. © 2012 by Steve Randy Waldman. Reprinted by permission of the author. “The Naked and the TED,” by Evgeny Morozov. First published in The New Republic, August 2, 2012. © 2012 by Evgeny Morozov. Reprinted by permission of the author. “Wall Street Bonus Withdrawal Means Trading Aspen for Coupons” by Max Abelson, from Bloomberg
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Crisis. Her first book, The Smartest Guys in the Room, about the fall of Enron, cowritten with Peter Elkind, became an Academy Award–nominated documentary. EVGENY MOROZOV is a writer and researcher who studies the political and social implications of technology. A visiting scholar at Stanford University, he is the author of
Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy
by Robert W. McChesney · 5 Mar 2013 · 476pp · 125,219 words
, Des Freedman, James K. Galbraith, Peter Hart, Matthew Hindman, Amy Holland, Hannah Holleman, Janine Jackson, Paul Krugman, Rebecca MacKinnon, Fred Magdoff, John Mage, Greg Mitchell, Evgeny Morozov, John Naughton, Eric Newton, Molly Niesen, Rich Potter, Einar Scalloppsen, Travers Scott, Norman Stockwell, and Kristina Williams. This book is for Lucy and Amy, and
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to resemble animals converging on shrinking oases of old media in a depleted desert.”34 Rebecca MacKinnon in her 2012 Consent of the Networked and Evgeny Morozov in his 2011 The Net Delusion each reject the idea that the Internet will necessarily lead to democratic political revolutions worldwide. They point out that
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interest. “All too often policymakers thinking to regulate Google have preferred to treat it as an equal of Human Rights Watch rather than of Halliburton,” Evgeny Morozov writes, adding that “if we are serious about making the Internet deliver on its democratic potential, we will need to reconsider this attitude.”83 The
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quotes are Aharon Kantorovich and Yuval Ne’eman. 34. Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget, 86. 35. MacKinnon, Consent of the Networked, especially chap. 3; Evgeny Morozov, The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom (New York: PublicAffairs, 2011). 36. Michael Massing writes that those who have followed the Arab Spring
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Media Is Costing Us All,” Huffington Post, Mar. 8, 2012, huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/social-media_b_1333499.html. 49. John Naughton, Comments responding to Evgeny Morozov, Media, Power & Revolution conference, University of London, Apr. 2, 2012. 50. Mark Bauerlein edited a 2011 anthology with arguments “for and against” social media, including
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Alperovitz, “Wall Street Is Too Big to Regulate,” New York Times, July 23, 2012, A19. 82. André Schiffrin, Words and Money (London: Verso, 2011). 83. Evgeny Morozov, The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, paperback edition (New York: PublicAffairs, 2011), 323. 84. For recent examples of how regulators condone what
Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection
by Jacob Silverman · 17 Mar 2015 · 527pp · 147,690 words
Jimmy Wales to Oracle’s Larry Ellison. Unabashed cyber-libertarianism, combined with an avaricious and wholly unconflicted brand of consumerism, permeates America’s digital elite. Evgeny Morozov, a fierce critic of the industry, highlighted two important strains of belief in his recent books: the congenital utopianism of Silicon Valley moguls and their
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that “most trends in Sina Weibo [a Chinese micro-blogging service] are due to the continuous retweets of a small percentage of fraudulent accounts.” As Evgeny Morozov writes, “The hidden initial manipulations of the PR industry are only made worse by the business incentives of platforms such as YouTube and Facebook, which
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executive’s world, “More data is always better,” helping customers and clients alike, with no thought toward possible conflicts of interest or privacy violations. As Evgeny Morozov warned, “Given how much they know about their clients, these companies can perfect the art of hidden persuasion and manipulation in ways that Madison Avenue
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stimulus. Information is power, particularly in this enervated economy, so we take on as much of it as we can handle. We succumb to what Evgeny Morozov calls “the many temptations of information consumerism.” This posture promises that anything is solvable—social and environmental and economic problems, sure, but more urgent, the
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in Chinese Social Media.” Social Science Research Network. Dec. 2, 2013. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2362561. 84 “when one greedy industry”: Evgeny Morozov. To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism. New York: Public Affairs, 2013, 157. 85 YTView menu: Chase Hoffberger. “I Bought Myself 60
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28, 2014. blog.okcupid.com/index.php/we-experiment-on-human-beings. 204 “That’s how Web sites work”: ibid. 204 Variety of credit data: Evgeny Morozov. “Your Social Networking Credit Score.” Slate. Jan. 30, 2013. slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/01/wonga_lenddo_lendup_big_data_and_social_networking
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.com/articles/technology/books/2013/05/jaron_lanier_s_who_owns_the_future_review_facebookers_of_the_world_unite.single.html. 268 Resurgence of flânerie: Evgeny Morozov. “The Death of the Cyberflâneur.” New York Times. Feb. 4, 2012. nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/the-death-of-the-cyberflaneur.html. 270
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-inquiry./ 319 “A widespread revolt”: Lasch. Culture of Narcissism, 245. 320 “what we ‘like’ ”: Hartzog and Selinger. “Big Data in Small Hands.” 322 “information consumerism”: Evgeny Morozov. “The Price of Hypocrisy.” Frankfurter Allgemeine. July 24, 2013. faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/ueberwachung/information-consumerism-the-price-of-hypocrisy-12292374.html. 323 “more
The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be
by Moises Naim · 5 Mar 2013 · 474pp · 120,801 words
and counter-cases that illustrate the arguments of Internet optimists and techno-futurists like Clay Shirky as well as the counter-arguments of skeptics like Evgeny Morozov and Malcolm Gladwell. Thus, to understand why the barriers to power have become porous, we need to look at deeper transformations—to changes that began
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. That is not insignificant, but it doesn’t constitute the kind of risk-taking activism that propelled so many of the great social movements. Author Evgeny Morozov calls this new, low-involvement and low-impact participation “slacktivism.” It is, he says, “the ideal type of activism for a lazy generation: why bother
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, Tom Carver, Elkyn Chaparro, Lourdes Cue, Wesley Clark, Tom Friedman, Lou Goodman, Victor Halberstadt, Ivan Krastev, Steven Kull, Ricardo Lagos, Sebastian Mallaby, Luis Alberto Moreno, Evgeny Morozov, Dick O’Neill, Minxin Pei, Maite Rico, Gianni Riotta, Klaus Schwab, Javier Solana, George Soros, Larry Summers, Gerver Torres, Martin Wolf, Robert Wright, Ernesto Zedillo
The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
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The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
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Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
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The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems-And Create More
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The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism
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The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection
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