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"Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?" the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev sarcastically asked Richard Nixon in the now infamous Kitchen Debate of 1959. That memorable exchange took place at the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, where Nixon, then vice president, went to promote the latest innovations of the decadent West.

“Internet will be a tyrant' best friend,” predicted several years ago Evgeny Morozov, a Belarusian researcher specialized in the political and social implications of new technologies. During the uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, which were often ...

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Peter Bergen discusses the Obama Administration's covert drone war in Yemen, White House information leaks, and the president's kill list. Evgeny Morozov explores the peaceful side of cyber warfare and the American cyber attacks on Iran. Elizabeth Weingarten Hosts.

Should we worry about cyberwarfare? Judging by excessively dramatic headlines in the media, very much so. Cyberwarfare, the argument goes, might make wars easier to start and thus more likely.

... place — which suggests Jobs had little patience for politics or perhaps even society. There's just the device and the user. Much more on Jobs' aesthetics and politics here in Evgeny Morozov's brilliant review of Walter Isaacson's recent Jobs biography.

As Evgeny Morozov writes in "The Net Delusion," repressive governments are becoming smarter about how to control and influence the information environment online, going as far as to track dissidents and hack their communications.

It's hard to deny the intellectual ambiguity of “Internet freedom” when among its staunchest defenders are idealistic hacktivists from Anonymous and hard-nosed diplomats from the U.S. State Department—two groups that otherwise disagree on everything else. Ironically, both may end up hurting the very noble cause that they seek to promote.

Across the aisle, Evgeny Morozov, a Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation, teamed up with Slate Group editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg to argue the opposite—that the Internet nurtures new political perspectives. The audience was polled on the ...

He's also a visiting fellow at Stanford University's Liberation Technology program and a Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation. Though Morozov has plenty of reservations about Google, Facebook, et al, at the Slate/Intelligence Squared live ...

Morozov is currently a visiting scholar in the Liberation Technology program at Stanford University and a Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation. He was formerly a Yahoo fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University ...

Can technology be autonomous? Does it lead a life of its own and operate independently of human guidance? From the French theologian Jacques Ellul to the Unabomber, this used to be widely accepted. Today, however, most historians and sociologists of technology dismiss it as naive and inaccurate.

Yet the world of modern finance is increasingly dependent on automated trading, with sophisticated computer algorithms finding and exploiting pricing irregularities that are invisible to ordinary traders.