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To Save Everything, Click Here : the folly of technological solutionism

Material type: TextTextDescription: 413ISBN:
  • 9781846145490
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.23/1 MOR-S
Summary: Our society is at a crossroads. Smart technology is transformingour world, making many aspects of our lives more convenient,efficient and - in some cases - fun. Better and cheaper sensors cannow be embedded in almost everything, and technologies can log theproducts we buy and the way we use them. But, argues EvgenyMorozov, technology is having a more profound effect on us: it ischanging the way we understand human society.In the very near future, technological systems will allow us tomake large-scale and sophisticated interventions into many moreareas of public life. These are the discourses by which we havealways defined our civilisation: politics, culture, public debate,morality, humanism. But how will these discourses be affected whenwe delegate much of the responsibility for them to technology? Thetemptation of the digital age is to fix everything - from crime tocorruption to pollution to obesity - by digitally quantifying,tracking, or gamifiying behaviour. Yet when we change themotivations for our moral, ethical and civic behaviour, do we alsochange the very nature of that behaviour? Technology, Morozovproposes, can be a force for improvement - but only if we abandonthe idea that it is necessarily revolutionary and instead genuinelyinterrogate why and how we are using it.From urging us to drop outdated ideas of the internet to showinghow to design more humane and democratic technological solutions,to Save Everything, Click Here is about why we should alwaysquestion the way we use technology.
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Our society is at a crossroads. Smart technology is transformingour world, making many aspects of our lives more convenient,efficient and - in some cases - fun. Better and cheaper sensors cannow be embedded in almost everything, and technologies can log theproducts we buy and the way we use them. But, argues EvgenyMorozov, technology is having a more profound effect on us: it ischanging the way we understand human society.In the very near future, technological systems will allow us tomake large-scale and sophisticated interventions into many moreareas of public life. These are the discourses by which we havealways defined our civilisation: politics, culture, public debate,morality, humanism. But how will these discourses be affected whenwe delegate much of the responsibility for them to technology? Thetemptation of the digital age is to fix everything - from crime tocorruption to pollution to obesity - by digitally quantifying,tracking, or gamifiying behaviour. Yet when we change themotivations for our moral, ethical and civic behaviour, do we alsochange the very nature of that behaviour? Technology, Morozovproposes, can be a force for improvement - but only if we abandonthe idea that it is necessarily revolutionary and instead genuinelyinterrogate why and how we are using it.From urging us to drop outdated ideas of the internet to showinghow to design more humane and democratic technological solutions,to Save Everything, Click Here is about why we should alwaysquestion the way we use technology.

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