The AI We Deserve

Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where’s the utopian vision for what it could be?

Cultivating Meaning

Evgeny Morozov responds.

Can AI Break Out of Panglossian Neoliberalism?

What Big Tech has done to our institutional and infrastructural imagination.

Response to Saving Privacy

If users have incentive to sell their data, encryption won’t help.

What’s Wrong with Technological Fixes?

Evgeny Morozov answers questions about his new book, To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism.

Advertising Away Our Privacy

By routinely giving away a huge amount of personal data, everyday Internet users might already have become law enforcement’s greatest ally.

Passing Through

Why the Open Internet Is Worth Saving

Technological Utopianism

Technological Utopianism

Sharing Liberally

The main argument of Cognitive Surplus rests on a striking analogy. 

Speak, Memory

Can digital storage remember for you?

Edit This Page

Is the end of Wikipedia near?

Cyber-Scare

The exaggerated fears over digital warfare.

Texting Toward Utopia

Does the Internet spread democracy?

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