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To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly Of Technological Solutionism (2013)

by Evgeny Morozov(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1610391381 (ISBN13: 9781610391382)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

PublicAffairs

review 1: Morozov critiques both the impulse to find a technological solution to everything (and the assumption there has to be one) and the belief the Internet is like nothing that came before (as he points out, everything from crowdsourcing to blogging about daily life has a precedent) and that anything which challenges the Internet's status quo is going against a law of the universe (so, for example, companies' use of our online information is just the way things are and can't possibly change). A good look at a lot of cliched thinking.
review 2: To Save Everything, Click Here started off so promising, but it quickly deteriorates. How can I ever trust my Amazon recommendations again? —Some irony with the book’s premise.I think there’s potential for a fascinating ... morediscussion with some interesting ideas to reflect on, and I would’ve loved to read a book like that. Unfortunately, this book’s points are lost in what comes across as a rant. He seems fixated on attacking the ideas of the much more popular thinkers on the topic rather than building up his own ideas, which created an overly negative tone and this completely turned me off.He also excessively uses scare quotes—he over uses scare quotes like a kid would over use animated gifs on a GeoCities site back in the day. less

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