Evgeny Morozov explains how Snowden's revelations upended the establishment political certitudes about the Internet.

He notes the danger in the "smart" products that will spy on you.

He is mistaken on one point. Gmail could not encrypt email in such a way that it could never read the email. If the encryption is done by Gmail, Gmail has already had a chance to see the non-encrypted message, and could send it to the NSA first.