Evgeny Morozov

Argues that technology is changing the way we understand human society and discusses how the disciplines of politics, culture, public debate, morality, and humanism will be affected when responsibility for them is delegated to technology.

The Folly of Technological Solutionism

To Save Everything, Click Here

We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the Middle East's 'twitter revolution' to Facebook activism, technology would spread democracy and bring us together as never before. We couldn't have been more wrong. In The Net Delusion Evgeny Morozov shows why internet freedom is an illusion. Not only that - in many cases the net is actually helping oppressive regimes to stifle dissent, track dissidents and keep people pacified, with companies such as Google and Amazon helping them do it. This book shows that free information doesn't mean free people - and that, right now, everyone's liberty is at stake. 'A brilliant and courageous book.' The New York Times 'Gleefully iconoclastic, unfailingly readable, provocative, enlightening.' Economist 'Passionate, admirable and important.' Observer 'The book is a wake-up call to those who think the internet is the solution to all our problems.' Daily Telegraph 'A delight . . . his demolition job on the embarrassments of 'internet freedom' is comprehensive.' Independent 'Piercing . . . convincing . . . timely' Financial Times

How Not to Liberate the World

The Net Delusion

Publisher's description: “The revolution will be Twittered!” declared journalist Andrew Sullivan after protests erupted in Iran. Yet for all the talk about the liberalizing force of the internet, regimes in Iran and China are as stable and repressive as ever. In fact, authoritarian regimes are effectively using the internet to suppress free speech and democracy. What's more, the latest research shows that greater access to information pacifies a population as much as it incites it to revolution. If we in the West are to promote liberal ideals, we'll have to do more than fund Facebook. In this book, blogger and social commentator Evgeny Morozov tackles these issues with relentless energy and analytical savvy. Marshalling a compelling set of case studies, he shows why we must stop thinking of the internet and social media as instant cures for repression, and how, in some cases, they can even threaten democracy.

The Dark Side of Internet Freedom

the dark side of internet freedom

The net delusion

Silicon Valley: i signori del silicio

Digitale Technik und die Freiheit des Menschen

Smarte neue Welt

Big Tech - A ascensão dos dados e a morte da política

L'ingenuità della rete. Il lato oscuro della libertà di internet

Internet non salverà il mondo

Capitalismo big tech : ¿welfare o neofeudalismo digital?

Our society is at a crossroads. Smart technology is transforming our world, making many aspects of our lives more convenient, efficient and - in some cases - fun. Better and cheaper sensors can now be embedded in almost everything, and technologies can log the products we buy and the way we use them. But, argues Evgeny Morozov, technology is having a more profound effect on us: it is changing the way we understand human society. In the very near future, technological systems will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions into many more areas of public life. These are the discourses by which we have always defined our civilisation: politics, culture, public debate, morality, humanism. But how will these disciplines be affected when 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 behaviour. But when we change the motivations for our moral, ethical and civic behaviour, do we also change the very nature of that behaviour? Technology, Morozov proposes, can be a force for improvement - but only if we abandon the idea that it is necessarily revolutionary and instead genuinely interrogate why and how we are using it. From urging us to drop outdated ideas of the Internet to showing how to design more humane and democratic technological solutions, To Save Everything, Click Here is about why we will always need to consider the consequences of the way we use technology. 'A clear voice of reason and critical thinking in the middle of today's neomania' Nassim Taleb, Author of The Black Swan

Technology, Solutionism and the Urge to Fix Problems that Don't Exist

Wie die Zukunft der Demokratie in Zeiten von Big Data aussieht, sollte die Frage ablösen, wie wir Kontrolle über unsere persönlichen Daten gewinnen können; denn die Beantwortung könnte sich als wertlos erweisen, wenn das demokratische Leben durch automatisierte Informationsgewinnung zerstört wird, meint Evgeny Morozov in seinem Beitrag zu Kursbuch 177.

Die Zukunft der Demokratie im Big-Data-Zeitalter

Datenagenten in eigener Sache

Dentro de poco tiempo, la tecnología nos permitirá resolver problemas de maneras altamente originales, así como realizar sofisticadas intervenciones a gran escala en los ámbitos de la política, la cultura y la vida cotidiana. La tentación de la era digital es la de arreglar todo -desde el crimen y la corrupción hasta la polución o la obesidad- por medio de estrategias digitales de cuantificación. Sin embargo, una vez que los dilemas políticos y morales más profundos y persistentes se transformen en cuestiones no controvertidas y fácilmente manejables por medios tecnológicos, ¿qué resultados tendrá este "solucionismo"? ¿Sabemos acaso cómo nos afectará? Si cambiamos las motivaciones de nuestro comportamiento cívico y moral, es probable que cambiemos también la naturaleza misma de dicho comportamiento. Con el argumento de que necesitamos con suma urgencia una manera nueva de debatir las consecuencias morales de las tecnologías digitales, La locura del solucionismo tecnológico nos advierte sobre las trampas y los peligros de la fantasía, no tan lejana, de un mundo de eficiencia sin fisuras.

La locura del solucionismo tecnológico

The New Digital Feudalism and the Future of the City

Freedom as a Service

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. o que falam desta obra: "Um mundo em que plataformas como Facebook e WhatsApp têm uma enorme influência não apenas no que compramos e com quem conversamos, mas em como votamos e decidimos nosso futuro, encontra no autor e pesquisador Evgeny Morozov um de seus críticos mais veementes." — Camilo Rocha, Nexo Jornal "Nascido em Belarus, no leste europeu, Morozov é considerado um visionário por ter sido um dos primeiros a prever que a Internet e as redes sociais poderiam trazer consequências políticas negativas." — Amanda Rossi, BBC Brasil "Autor, que lança Big Tech - A ascensão dos dados e a morte da política, afirma que mito da economia do compartilhamento está fadado a cair. Para ele, sem um projeto político sólido, a potencial democratização de produtos e serviços virará mercadoria nas mãos de grandes empresas." — Paulo Migliacci, Folha de S. Paulo

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