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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
When someone at the State Department proclaims Facebook to be the most organic tool for promoting democracy the world has ever seen - that's a direct quote - it may help in the short run by getting more people onto Facebook by making it more popular with dissidents.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
The message I'm trying to send is that technology is political, and that many decisions that look like decisions about technology actually are not at all about technology - they are about politics, and they need to be scrutinized as closely as we would scrutinize decisions about politics.
- Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it is about technology, there is this tendency to just reject all criticism as being anti-technological and anti-modern. I think this is very unhealthy.
- Grips
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to SXSW in 2011. God, that was awful. I mean, I only went because my publisher wanted me to promote the book and the organizers invited me and it seemed silly not to go, especially for a relatively unknown first-time author. This is just not my cup of tea; the fewer such events I do on an annual basis, the happier I feel.
- Cares
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm rarely invited to start-up parties, but who cares about their trinkets and apps anyway?
- don't Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent two years in Palo Alto - what an awful, suffocating place for those of us who don't care about yoga, yogurts and start-ups - and now I have moved to Cambridge, MA - which, in many respects, is like Palo Alto but a bit snarkier.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep track of people in the camps, ecological disasters.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the geeks in Silicon Valley will tell you they no longer believe in the ability of policymakers in Washington to accomplish anything. They don't understand why people end up in politics; they would do much more good for the world if they worked at Google or Facebook.
- Cloud
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.
- Smart
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you use your smart toothbrush, the data can be immediately sent to your dentist and your insurance company, but it also allows someone from the NSA to know what was in your mouth three weeks ago.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is this absurd assumption that the revitalisation of the public sphere is always a good thing. I think people tend to confuse 'civic' and 'civil,' and they believe that everything that is done by citizens is necessarily a good thing because you build a network, an association.
- Empower
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no problem with technological solutions to social problems. The key question for me is, 'Who gets to implement them?' and, 'What kinds of politics of reform do technological solutions smuggle through the back door?'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not on Facebook. I have a sort of anonymous account that I check, like, once every six months every time Facebook rolls out a new feature.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to admit its downside.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is true that authoritarian governments increasingly see the Internet as a threat in part because they see the U.S. government behind the Internet.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
Russian young people spend countless hours online downloading videos and having a very nice digital entertainment lifestyle, which does not necessarily turn them into the next Che Guevara.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
For many oppositional movements, the Internet, while providing the opportunity to distribute information more quickly and cheaper, may have actually made their struggle more difficult in the long run.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is being said online. The Department of Commerce is going after piracy. At home, the American government wants anything but Internet freedom.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.
- iPad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm active on Twitter, and I love my iPad and my Kindle.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we can commit a crime, we can also trigger debate. Cases go to courts. Media start covering the cases. But once you build smart environments where, if you meet a certain probabilistic profile, you won't even be allowed to board a bus, let alone commit a crime, we're perpetuating existing laws so they face no challenges or revision.
- Glasses
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can now with Google Glasses record everything around us, and we can make sure that nothing is ever forgotten because everything is stored somewhere in Google servers or somewhere else.
- Cooking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look at something like cooking. Now, you would hear a lot about smart kitchens and augmented kitchens. And what do those smart kitchens actually do? They police what's happening inside the kitchen. They have cameras that distinguish ingredients one from each other and that tell you that shouldn't mix this ingredient with another ingredient.
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think governments will increasingly be tempted to rely on Silicon Valley to solve problems like obesity or climate change because Silicon Valley runs the information infrastructure through which we consume information.
- Hide
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- Nov 07, 2020
For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 implications here, and I'm not sure that we have grappled with any of them.
- Carelessly
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to start seeing privacy as a commons - as some kind of a public good that can get depleted as too many people treat it carelessly or abandon it too eagerly. What is privacy for? This question needs an urgent answer.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone.
- Happens
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- Nov 07, 2020
In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to prevent us reifying 'the Internet' as something to be preserved like some people want to preserve the American Constitution as it was written.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Lifestyle
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- Nov 07, 2020
If my idea was just to maintain a certain lifestyle, there would be no need to get a Ph.D. But I do care very deeply about the idea side as well.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
The newspaper offers something very different from Google's aggregators. It offers a value system, an idea of what matters in the world. Newspapers need to start articulating that value.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are good reasons why we don't want everyone to learn nuclear physics, medicine or how financial markets work. Our entire modern project has been about delegating power over us to skilled people who want to do the work and be rewarded accordingly.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something almost sacred about the Internet. I'm trying to secularize it.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
Diplomacy is, perhaps, one element of the U.S. government that should not be subject to the demands of 'open government'; whenever it works, it is usually because it is done behind closed doors. But this may be increasingly hard to achieve in the age of Twittering bureaucrats.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very idealistic fellow who thought that he could use blogs, social networks and new media to help promote democracy, human rights and freedom of expression.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020