Evgeny Morozov Quotes

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

It's easy to kind of say it's the elite that's putting you down. Well, it wasn't really the elite, technology will do that.

Unsurprisingly, the most vocal opponents of new technologies are those who dominated the old.

...A new technology sometimes creates more than it destroys. Sometimes, it destroys more than it creates. But it is never one-sided.

Warfare evolves. It changes as a result of technology. It changes as the culture changes.

These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish.

The locomotive is coming into contact with the framework of our institutions. In this country of simple government, the most powerful civilizing force which civilization has yet produced must … assume its relation to that political machinery which is to control and regulate it.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilization. For them, such a charge is worse than that of crime.

We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values.

Government is on a collision course with the future

Like it or not, the United States is a revolutionary power. Whether the government is trying to overthrow foreign dictators is almost irrelevant. American society is about the most revolutionary force on the planet. The Internet is more subversive than the CIA in its prime. The dynamism of American Society is constantly creating new businesses, new technologies, new ideas and new social models. These innovations travel, and they make trouble when they do.

… the telephone was only a convenience permitting Americans to do more orally and with less effort than what they had been doing before.

The coming of the wireless Era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.

The masses in highly industrialized countries like England, the United States, or France are largely de-Christianized. Technology, and the way of life it produces, undermines Christianity far more effectively than do violent measures.

Politicon should be applauded for recognizing the increasing impact of technology, not only on American social and economic systems but on the very structure of our system of politics.

We love serious technology innovations, and there is a strong bias towards large technology innovations that are sort of disruptive to the current market.

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

I think technology and smartphones created a huge paradigm shift that we can't fully comprehend, and I think in a lot of ways things are changing faster than we can really process.

You can't think of technology as separate from all of our human drama anymore.

The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.

You can go overboard in how quickly you might expect new technologies to transform people's lives. But I very much believe the way software is used, the way information gets distributed, will be dramatically different within 10 years. There is fire to go with all this smoke.

Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose.

Technology's become the great prism for what's going on in the world.