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In the very near future, smart” technologies and big data” will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original ways and create new incentives to get more people to do the right thing. But how will such solutionism” affect our society, once deeply political, moral, and irresolvable dilemmas are recast as uncontroversial and easily manageable matters of technological efficiency? What if some such problems are simply vices in disguise? What if some friction in communication is productive and some hypocrisy in politics necessary? The temptation of the digital age is to fix everythingfrom crime to corruption to pollution to obesityby digitally quantifying, tracking, or gamifying behavior. But when we change the motivations for our moral, ethical, and civic behavior we may also change the very nature of that behavior. Technology, Evgeny Morozov proposes, can be a force for improvementbut only if we keep solutionism in check and learn to appreciate the imperfections of liberal democracy. Some of those imperfections are not accidental but by design.Arguing that we badl

Who reads To Save Everything, Click Here : The Folly of Technological Solutionism?

Author

Morozov Evgeny.; Overdrive Inc

Publisher

Public Affairs; PublicAffairs

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781101593585

Category

history

Subjects

Computer Science, True Crime, Political Science

Rating

4.02 / 5 (699 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14