
Evgeny Morozov is a contributing editor to Foreign Policy and runs the magazine's "Net Effect" blog about the Internet's impact on global politics. Morozov has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, a Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation, a Yahoo! fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University, a fellow at George Soros's Open Society Institute, and the Director of New Media at Transitions Online.
"The revolution will be Twittered!" declared journalist Andrew Sullivan after protests erupted in Iran in June 2009. Yet for all the talk about the democratizing power of the Internet, regimes in Iran and China are as stable and repressive as ever. In fact, authoritarian governments are effectively using the Internet to suppress free speech, hone their surveillance techniques, disseminate cutting-edge propaganda, and pacify their populations with digital entertainment. Could the recent Western obsession with promoting democracy by digital means backfire? In this spirited book, journalist and social commentator Evgeny Morozov shows that by falling for the supposedly democratizing nature of the Internet, Western do-gooders may have missed how it also entrenches dictators, threatens dissidents, and makes it harder -- not easier -- to promote democracy. Buzzwords like "21st-century statecraft" sound good in PowerPoint presentations, but the reality is that "digital diplomacy" requires just as much oversight and consideration as any other kind of diplomacy. Marshaling compelling evidence, Morozov shows why we must stop thinking of the Internet and social media as inherently liberating and why ambitious and seemingly noble initiatives like the promotion of "Internet freedom" might have disastrous implications for the future of democracy as a whole.
by Evgeny Morozov
Rating: 3.7 ⭐
The award-winning author of The Net Delusion shows how the radical transparency we've become accustomed to online may threaten the spirit of real-life democracy.In the very near future, technological systems will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions into many more areas of public life: politics, culture, public debate, even our definitions of morality and human values. But how will these be affected once we delegate much of the responsibility for them to technology? The temptation of the digital age is to fix everything—from crime to corruption to pollution to obesity—by digitally quantifying, tracking, or gamifiying behavior. But when we change the motivations for our moral, ethical, and civic behavior, we may also change the very nature of that behavior itself. Technology, Evgeny Morozov proposes, can be a force for improvement—but only if we abandon the idea that it is necessarily revolutionary and instead genuinely interrogate what we are doing with it and what it is doing to us.From urging us to abandon monolithic ideas of “the Internet” to showing how to design more humane and democratic technological solutions, To Save Everything, Click Here is a dazzling tour of our technological future, and a searching investigation into the digital version of an enduring struggle: between man and his machines.
Reunião dos principais artigos de um dos mais influentes especialistas em tecnologia e em internet do mundo, Evgeny Morozov. Big tech problematiza a lógica do chamado "solucionismo" tecnológico, que enxerga a tecnologia como panaceia para problemas que instituições falharam em resolver. O livro alerta que a internet e plataformas tecnológicas baseadas em dados pessoais (Airbnb, Uber, Facebook e Whatsapp, para dar alguns exemplos), diferente do que se costuma acreditar, podem servir de ferramenta contrária à democracia, dependendo da maneira como são usadas. Extremamente atual, abordando os efeitos positivos e negativos do universo automatizado em que vivemos, este livro faz parte da coleção Exit e comporta os textos essenciais do autor, inédito em português.
Da alcuni anni le aziende della Silicon Valley promettono prosperità, uguaglianza e una nuova società in cui tutto sarà condivisibile e accessibile, superando le vecchie logiche di mercato. Ma le cose stanno davvero così? Siamo sicuri che Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter & co. non siano piuttosto l'ultima incarnazione del capitalismo (ancora più subdolo, perché mascherato dietro la suadente retorica della rivoluzione digitale) e l'ennesima versione dell'accentramento di potere economico e politico nelle mani di pochi? In tutto questo, sostiene Morozov, di democratico, rivoluzionario e "smart" c'è ben poco; c'è invece una merce svenduta sull'altare del profitto: i nostri dati personali, la nostra privacy e soprattutto la nostra libertà.
Todos queremos cidades com serviços eficientes e baratos que melhorem o transporte, a saúde, a moradia, a educação etc. Mas a questão é como evitar que nossas cidades se tornem máquinas de precarizar trabalhadores, beneficiando apenas a interesses privados. A smart city – essa “grife” que se tornou a cidade repleta de serviços de empresas Big Tech – se mostrou muito mais funcional, otimizada e controlada do que participativa, sustentável e justa. Como contraponto a esse sistema neoliberal, os especialistas em tecnologia e seus impactos socioeconômicos Evgeny Morozov e Francesca Bria oferecem uma série de exemplos e estudos de caso de formas de gestão cooperativa. Por exemplo, as cidades de Amsterdã e de Barcelona, por meio do projeto Decode, iniciado em 2017, buscam implementar uma infraestrutura descentralizada de dados que devolve o controle sobre as informações aos cidadãos e oferece soluções de gerenciamento de dados flexíveis e atentas à privacidade. De forma similar, o programa Datacités, lançado em 2016 em Paris, aborda o tópico do direito dos cidadãos a dados como bens públicos por meio do envolvimento de todas as partes interessadas no processo. O programa também incentiva modelos alternativos para serviços urbanos nas áreas de mobilidade, energia e controle de resíduos com base na concepção de dados como recursos públicos. Para Morozov e Bria, retomar o controle sobre tecnologias, dados e infraestruturas é imprescindível para a gestão cooperativa da cidade inteligente do futuro – democrática e inclusiva.
by Evgeny Morozov
Rating: 3.1 ⭐
Sono dieci anni che la Apple colleziona un successo dopo l’altro. La società di Cupertino ha portato nelle case di milioni di persone non solo una tecnologia, ma anche uno stile di vita. Chi compra un MacBook, un iPad, un iPhone non sta solo comprando un computer, un tablet o uno smartphone; sta dichiarando un’appartenenza. Sta dicendo qualcosa di sé. Ma cosa c’è dietro questo successo? Cosa è riuscito a fare Steve Jobs che non sono riusciti a fare gli altri imprenditori? Evgeny Morozov, l’enfant terrible del web, ha affilato la sua penna, ha preso un bel respiro, e si è buttato a testa bassa contro i ritratti agiografici dedicati a Jobs che in questi ultimi mesi hanno popolato le librerie e internet. Un’analisi caustica e illuminante sul “miracolo Apple”.La domanda a questo punto sorge spontanea: Steve Jobs è stato un filosofo che ha cercato di cambiare il mondo, oppure è stato un genio del marketing, capace di trasformare una normale azienda produttrice di computer nell’oggetto di una vera e propria venerazione, mentre era indaffarato a regolare i conti con il passato e a nutrire il suo gigantesco ego?Evgeny Morozov
by Evgeny Morozov
Rating: 3.2 ⭐
L'auteur appelle à résister au solutionnisme, une tendance à voir dans la technologie numérique une panacée universelle qui résoudra tous les problèmes. Critiquant les fausses promesses de la Silicon Valley et leurs liens avec l'idéologie néolibérale, il cherche à comprendre comment le libre flux de données s'inscrit dans la mise en place du commerce mondial dérégulé.
Евгений Морозов - белорусско-американский публицист, один из ведущих критиков технологических инноваций (распространение интернета, гаджеты, соцсети и т.п.). Автор множества статей в ведущих американских изданиях, а также нашумевших книг "Сеть как иллюзия: темная сторона свободного интернета" и "Кликни сюда, чтобы все сохранить". По мнению Морозова, мы склонны недооценивать обратную сторону интернета и новых технологий - то, что кажется решением проблемы, на деле может оказаться новой проблемой, еще более сложной. Это первая книга Евгения Морозова на русском языке.
A sober assessment of AI today, and a bold vision for what it could be.Generative AI tools, released by a handful of rich tech companies, are remaking the economy, society, and human life as we know it. Must their vision be our common destiny?Leading a forum, acclaimed technology writer Evgeny Morozov—author of To Save Everything, Click Here and host of the podcast A Sense of Rebellion—takes a hard look at Silicon Valley’s grip on our technological imagination. The prevailing wisdom says we can be complacent realists—erecting a few guardrails around Big Tech—or else total refuseniks, rejecting this new technology altogether. That false choice runs roughshod over history, Morozov argues—and with it a more utopian vision of the role technology can play in our lives.To sketch a better AI future, Morozov takes us back to the past, showing how a radically different way of thinking about artificial intelligence once flourished before losing out to Cold War militarization, consumerism, and venture capital. That more humane vision can still be won, but it requires being clear-eyed about the obstacles. Only by building political power, Morozov concludes, can we wrench control of AI from Silicon Valley and build a technological future that serves us all. Forum respondents include musician Brian Eno, computer scientist and AI pioneer Terry Winograd, free software activist and former digital minister of Taiwan Audrey Tang, technologist Bruce Schneier, writer and software engineer Wendy Liu, and journalist Edward Ongweso Jr..Also in this Joelle M. Abi-Rached on exploding pagers in Beirut and Israel’s expanding war; Sophia Goodfriend on the military’s embrace of the new AI; Lily Hu on the political theory of algorithms; Alexander Hartley on copyright after ChatGPT; Terry Nguyen on the work of literature in the age of large language models; and more.
A startling analysis of how tech solutionism is obscuring creative problem-solving toward a more equitable society.From smart devices that help reduce one's carbon footprint to apps where one can buy themed portfolios of companies that promote vegan or LGBTQ-friendly causes, corporations appear to be producing, at light speed, solutions to our most preoccupying social problems. You, as a conscientious user, just need to buy in. Welcome to solutionism.In Freedom as a Service , tech's most formidable critic, Evgeny Morozov, identifies a new stage of organic capitalism, a system that is happy to admit to its own failures while unleashing more capitalist solutions to them. Under organic capitalism, “platform populism” enables a multitude of solutionist interventions while also creating the illusion that the users are in charge. And, Morozov argues, it's the left that is most susceptible to this Trojan horse, as technocratic approaches are combined with the do-good rhetoric of a more humane capitalism. But solutionism doesn’t really solve problems; it simply monetizes the behavioral change of an individual. We are actually under -producing solutions because the sort of structural solutions that are not favorable to capital never come into existence.Trenchant, bold, and highly original, Freedom as a Service is an urgent exposé of our current political and technological order. Drawing on Marx and Hayek, Morozov cuts through the fog of solutionism's false promises, proposing a obsoletism, where instead of solving problems, we concentrate our efforts on creating a new world where such problems are made obsolete. With this groundbreaking new concept, Morozov illuminates a way more tech-literate, more imaginative, and more effective at securing a just and habitable future.
by Evgeny Morozov
Rating: 5.0 ⭐
Die Frage, die wir uns während der letzten 20 Jahre gestellt haben - wie können wir mehr Kontrolle über unsere persönlichen Daten erlangen? - ist nicht ganz die richtige, oder zumindest sollte sie nicht die einzige sein. Evgeny Morozov über die Zukunft der Demokratie im Zeitalter von Big-Data!
by Evgeny Morozov
Los mitos de la libertad en la red. Cuando en junio de 2009 estalló la revuelta en Irán, los medios de comunicación occidentales se apresuraron a bautizar aquellas protestas como la primera revolución Twitter, y numerosos analistas y políticos vieron en semejante ―y aparente― demostración palpable del poder agitador de las redes sociales un refuerzo para su ciberutopismo.Sin embargo, y pese a lo mucho que se habla de internet como herramienta de democratización, regímenes autoritarios como los de Irán y China siguen sin dar muestras de inestabilidad. De hecho, según revela en este libro Evgeny Morozov, están utilizando internet para perfeccionar sus técnicas de espionaje sobre la población.A juicio de Morozov, lo que los ciberutopistas olvidan es que las inmensas posibilidades de internet pueden utilizarse para hacer campaña a favor de las libertades, sí, pero también para todo lo contrario, es decir, para fomentar la represión, el conformismo y la ceguera.Y no sólo a través de la Morozov, él mismo un ciberutopista converso, defiende que internet, más que el catalizador de un cambio que llevará a los jóvenes a la calle, podría muy bien ser el nuevo opio de las masas. Al fin y al cabo, «las búsquedas más populares en los buscadores de internet rusos no son “¿qué es la democracia?” o “cómo proteger los derechos humanos”, sino “¿qué es el amor?” y “cómo perder peso”.»Armado de pruebas concluyentes, Morozov pone de manifiesto en este libro que hemos de dejar de pensar que internet y los medios sociales son liberadores per se, y que iniciativas ambiciosas y en apariencia nobles como la promoción de la «libertad en internet» pueden tener desastrosas implicaciones para el futuro de la democracia en su conjunto.
by Evgeny Morozov
Batılı karar mekani·zmaları büyük oranda i·nternetten bahsederken yerel ve küresel sınırların açık bi·çi·mde çi·zi·lmi·ş olduğunu varsayarak konuşmayı sürdürüyorlar. Fakat gelin görün ki bu hi·çbi·r zaman mümkün olmamış bi·r varsayım. Dünyada i·nternet kullanımını yaygınlaştırıp kendi ülkelerinde kısıtlamaya çalışan batılı poli·ti·kacıların en büyük i·ki·lemi· wi·ki·leaks i·le i·yi·ce ayyuka çıktı. Daha kötüsü, batılı si·yasetçi·ler, i·nternet özgürlüğüne yöneli·k tehdi·tleri·n büyük kısmının kendi· ülkelerinde başladığını di·llendi·rmeye cesaret edemiyorlar. Bu yüzden sanal ağ üzeri·nden yürütülen güç savaşlarının önemi her geçen gün daha da artmakta. Evgeny morozov sanal ağ yanılsamasının en saf halini gözler önüne seren twitter'den sonra bi·r tarih var mi? Ki·tabında i·nternet özgürlüğü gündeminin karanlık bi·r yani olduğunu söylüyor. Büyüyen dikizleme sektörü, teknolojik bağımlılık, casusluk faaliyetleri, mahremi·yet gibi bir dizi önemli meselenin izini sürüyor. İnternet karşısında daha eleştirel bir yerde durmak gerektiğini ortaya koyan yazarin kitapla yapmaya çalıştığı, internetin tek özgürleşti·ri·ci· araç olduğu fikrini yıkmak. Facebook ve twittera getirdiği eleştirilerle dijital aktivizme mesafeli duran morozov, siberütopyacılığın doğruları olduğu gibi görmemizi engellediğini kaydediyor. Üstelik bunu internet hakkında kesin bi·r hüküm vermeden ufuk açıcı örneklerle gözler önüne seriyor. Twi·tter'den sonra bi·r tarih var mi? I·nternet hakkındaki· tembel, kof, taraflı ve bayat düşüncenin korkunç si·yasi· sonuclar doğurduğunu anlamak isteyenler kin.