April 2012
3 posts
The Nicholas Carr of 1913: "The telephone changes...
Spotted on p.65 of “Crowds; a moving-picture of democracy“(1913) by Gerald Stanley Lee:
“We are not only inventing new machines, but our new machines have turned upon us and are creating new men. The telephone changes the structure of the brain. Men live in wider distances, and think in larger figures, and become eligible to nobler and wider motives.”
The author seems...
My oped in today's Financial Times
This piece runs in today’s FT:
Beware the unholy alliance of state and internet
By Evgeny Morozov
Surveillance means safety. This is the argument wherever and whenever governments seek new powers to monitor their citizens. Proposed legislation in the UK to enable police and intelligence services to access emails, Skype calls and Facebook messages is another such example. It is also...
My piece on the history of facial recognition...
The essay below runs in the April 5 issue of the London Review of Books. I post it here for educational purposes only!
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In Your Face
Evgeny Morozov
Our Biometric Future: Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance by Kelly Gates
NYU Press, 261 pp, £15.99, March 2011, ISBN 978 0 8147 3210 6
Until last summer, hi-tech riots – broadcast on YouTube and...
