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![At 28 and wickedly sarcastic (“There are idiots. Look around,” says his Twitter [@evgenymorozov] billboard), Morozov has emerged from the obscurity of his native Belarus as a leading voice of dissent against “cyber utopians” — the marketers, entrepreneurs and academics he sees as throwing over the lessons of history in a rush to promote the Internet as the solution to most of society’schallenges.
He’s the enfant terrible of a group that includes the New Yorker’s Malcolm Gladwell, Berkeley-based techno-humanist Jaron Lanier and former CNN correspondent Rebecca MacKinnon, author of “Consent of the Networked.”
-LA Times profile of our author Evgeny Morozov](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5z005MRy61qdde1co1_500.jpg)
At 28 and wickedly sarcastic (“There are idiots. Look around,” says his Twitter [@evgenymorozov] billboard), Morozov has emerged from the obscurity of his native Belarus as a leading voice of dissent against “cyber utopians” — the marketers, entrepreneurs and academics he sees as throwing over the lessons of history in a rush to promote the Internet as the solution to most of society’schallenges.
He’s the enfant terrible of a group that includes the New Yorker’s Malcolm Gladwell, Berkeley-based techno-humanist Jaron Lanier and former CNN correspondent Rebecca MacKinnon, author of “Consent of the Networked.”
