To Save Everything, Click Here - Evgeny Morozov
Technology, Solutionism, and the Urge to Fix Problems That Don't Exist
KORTE INHOUD
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 everythingfrom crime to corruption to pollution to obesityby 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, ...
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 everythingfrom crime to corruption to pollution to obesityby 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, ...
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2014, paperback, good condition [Auteur: Morozov, Evgeny] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Penguin Books Ltd] [Jaar: 2014] [Titel: To Save Everything, Click Here / Technology, Solutionism, and the Urge to Fix Problems that Don't Exist]
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Paperback vii-xv. 413 pp. Postscript, notes, acknowledgments, index. 19.8x13x2.6 cm. Fine. [Auteur: Morozov, Evgeny] [Uitgever: Penguin Books: London, 2013] [Titel: To save everything click Here: Technology, solutionism and the urge to fix problems that don't exist]
