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To Save Everything, Click Here - The Folly of Technological Solutionism (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
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To Save Everything, Click Here - The Folly of Technological Solutionism (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
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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
everything--from crime to corruption to pollution to obesity--by
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 improvement--but 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 badly need a new, post-Internet way to debate the
moral consequences of digital technologies, "To Save Everything,
Click Here" warns against a world of seamless efficiency, where
everyone is forced to wear Silicon Valley's digital
straitjacket.
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