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There is something almost sacred about the Internet. I'm trying to secularize it.

- Evgeny Morozov
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To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its image.

To understand the limits and opportunities of algorithms in the context of artistic creation, we need to understand that the latter usually consists of three elements: discovery, production, and recommendation.

Personalization can be very useful in some contexts but very harmful in others. Searching for pizza online, it's probably OK to keep showing the same pizza shop as your No. 1 choice. I don't see any big political consequences out of that.

This is the real tragedy of America's 'Internet freedom agenda': It's going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will pay for the hypocrisy that drove it from the very beginning.

Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions.

It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank.

Once Google is selected to run the infrastructure on which we are changing the world, Google will be there for ever. Democratic accountability will not be prevalent. You cannot file a public information request about Google.

We'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.

It's true that virtually all new technologies do trigger what sociologists would call 'moral panics,' that there are a lot of people who are concerned with the possible political and social consequences, and that this has been true throughout the ages.

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There is something almost sacred about the Internet. I'm trying to secularize it.

There is something almost sacred about the Internet. I'm trying to secularize it.

There is something almost sacred about the Internet. I'm trying to secularize it.

There is something almost sacred about the Internet. I'm trying to secularize it.

There is something almost sacred about the Internet. I'm trying to secularize it.

There is something almost sacred about the Internet. I'm trying to secularize it.

There is something almost sacred about the Internet. I'm trying to secularize it.

There is something almost sacred about the Internet. I'm trying to secularize it.

There is something almost sacred about the Internet. I'm trying to secularize it.

There is something almost sacred about the Internet. I'm trying to secularize it.

There is something almost sacred about the Internet. I'm trying to secularize it.

There is something almost sacred about the Internet. I'm trying to secularize it.

There is something almost sacred about the Internet. I'm trying to secularize it.

There is something almost sacred about the Internet. I'm trying to secularize it.

There is something almost sacred about the Internet. I'm trying to secularize it.