We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our... →
Evgeny Morozov
The global triumph of American technology has been predicated on the implicit separation between the business interests of Silicon Valley and the... →
The message I'm trying to send is that technology is political, and that many decisions that look like decisions about technology actually are... →
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... →
To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its image.
My fear is that many institutions will eventually alter how they treat people who refuse to self-track. There are all sorts of political and moral... →
If we don't like rent control, we ought to oppose it on political and social grounds - and not just by arguing that, thanks to smartphones and... →
It's true that virtually all new technologies do trigger what sociologists would call 'moral panics,' that there are a lot of people who... →
Paying more heed to the lessons of the past might teach us to be a little more cautious about some of the political decisions taken today.
Michael Morpurgo
'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the... →
Dick Morris