To Save Everything, Click Here

Name: To Save Everything, Click Here
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SKU: 9780241957707
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Technology, Solutionism, and the Urge to Fix Problems that Don't Exist

By Evgeny Morozov

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To Save Everything, Click Here by Evgeny Morozov examines the modern obsession with technology as a solution for all societal issues. Morozov critiques the prevalent belief that the internet can effortlessly fix complex problems, challenging the notion that digital solutions can replace traditional social and political processes. This insightful work delves into the potential risks of oversimplifying complexities through technology.
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You might enjoy this book if you're interested in exploring the intersection of technology and societal issues. It critically examines how the belief in technology's potential to solve all problems can be simplistic and potentially harmful. This book will appeal to those curious about the implications of digital solutions on social, cultural, and political norms.

To Save Everything, Click Here

Our gadgets are getting smarter. Technology can log what we buy, customize what we consume and enable us to save and share every aspect of our existence. In the future, we're told, it will even make public life - from how we're governed to how we record crime - better. But can the digital age fix everything? Should it?

Our world is at a crossroads. Personal gadgets are getting smarter, and technology is increasingly shaping public life too - logging everything from crime figures to how much we recycle, pollution levels to politicians' voting records.

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'A devastating expose of cyber-utopianism by the world's most far-seeing Internet guru.' - John Gray, author of Straw Dogs

Our gadgets are getting smarter. Technology can log what we buy, customise what we consume and enable us to save and share every aspect of our existence. In the future, we're told, it will even make public life - from how we're governed to how we record crime - better.

But can the digital age fix everything? Should it? By quantifying our behaviour, Evgeny Morozov argues, we are profoundly reshaping society - and risk losing the opacity and imperfection that make us human.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Brian Eno suggests that To Save Everything, Click Here reveals the hidden costs behind seemingly free digital services, while Nassim Taleb praises the book for its rational critique amidst the current obsession with technology.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241957707

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 July 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 308g

Pages: 432

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Computing & Technology Education & Reference Evgeny Morozov Non-Fiction Penguin Books Politics & Current Affairs Science & Nature

About the Author

Evgeny Morozov is the author of The Net Delusion and a contributing editor for the New Republic. Previously, he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University, a Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation, a Yahoo fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown, and a fellow at the Open Society Foundations. His monthly column on technology comes out in Slate, Corriere della Sera, El Pais, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and several other newspapers. He's also written for The New York Times, the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and the London Review of Books.