Evgeny Morozov’s The Net Delusion. My review of Evgeny Morozov’s important new book The Net Delusion has just come out in The Observer.
Now that the paper is off the shelves, I’ve pasted a full version of the text below. On 21 January 2010, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton made a speech at the delightfully named Newseum – America’s leading “interactive museum of news” – announcing “internet freedom” as a core foreign policy concern. “Information freedom,” she argued, “supports the peace and security that provide a foundation for global progress.” Evgeny Morozov has a blunt riposte to such ambitions: they smack of “excessive optimism and empty McKinsey-speak,” not to mention a “creative use of recent history”. Morozov, a young Belarusian-born writer and researcher now based in the US, doesn’t mince his words. Tablets Galore This Year; Which One Will be Yours? The Apple iPad is the tablet that is currently ruling the slate market and all expectations are that the next generation iPad will be unveiled sometime in the near future.
But it appears that this year will be a most difficult year for Apple’s greatest device to succeed in reaching the topmost position on the market. For, the Consumer Electronics Show at Las Vegas witnessed the unveiling of almost all the iPad rivals that will be fighting it out in the market this year. The Motorola Xoom.