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The Folly of Technological Solutionism
Evgeny Morozov
PublicAffairs
Présentation
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
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.
Caractéristiques
Éditeur | PublicAffairs |
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Date de publication | 5 mars 2013 |
Langue | anglais |
Fiches UNIMARC | S'identifier |