Evgeny Morozov is just a poor man's Malcolm Gladwell, and one focused solely on being contrarian to anything future-thinking, which makes him a darling for old media.
Here's a recent interview with him from Gawker:
http://gawker.com/5990608/a-discussion-with-evgeny-morozov-s...
Here's he talks about something he thinks he read on Hacker News:
http://gawker.com/5990608/?post=58282779
> I don't think we should ban them. But boy most of tech blogs would SO MUCH benefit from being ridiculed. Do you read the stuff they publish? I recall seeing a headline - on Hacker News, I think - on how "Uber will disrupt racism." I mean, what on earth is this? The Onion is less funny.
While I have no doubt that there are some HNers who are "Yes, startups can fix ANYTHING", I had a feeling that most HNers were not so credulous. So I did a search for "Uber" and "racism":
https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=uber+racis...
Turns out the headline he mocked was from Reason magazine ("How market forces undermine racism: Uber Cab Edition").
But it figures that someone like Morozov who reflexively shits on anything Google or any tech giant tries to do would not be bothered to conduct a simple Internet search before making a mocking assertion
Here's a recent interview with him from Gawker: http://gawker.com/5990608/a-discussion-with-evgeny-morozov-s...
Here's he talks about something he thinks he read on Hacker News:
http://gawker.com/5990608/?post=58282779 > I don't think we should ban them. But boy most of tech blogs would SO MUCH benefit from being ridiculed. Do you read the stuff they publish? I recall seeing a headline - on Hacker News, I think - on how "Uber will disrupt racism." I mean, what on earth is this? The Onion is less funny.
While I have no doubt that there are some HNers who are "Yes, startups can fix ANYTHING", I had a feeling that most HNers were not so credulous. So I did a search for "Uber" and "racism":
https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=uber+racis...
Turns out the headline he mocked was from Reason magazine ("How market forces undermine racism: Uber Cab Edition").
But it figures that someone like Morozov who reflexively shits on anything Google or any tech giant tries to do would not be bothered to conduct a simple Internet search before making a mocking assertion