Ma Boyong

Ma Boyong (born 14 November 1980) is a Chinese novelist, columnist and blogger.

Quotes

The Silence City/The City of Silence (2005)

• 1984的作者预见到了专制的进步，却没有预见到技术的进步。
  • The author of Nineteen Eighty-Four did predict the development of totalitarianism, but didn't predict the development of technology.
• 一句话，技术是中性的，但技术的进步会让自在的世界更自在，集权的世界更加集权。
  • One sentence: The technology is neutral, but the development of technology will make the liberal world more liberal, and the authoritarian world more authoritarian.