To save everything, click here
the folly of technological solutionism
by Evgeny Morozov, Nancy Viviana Piñeiro · first published 2013
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Argues that technology is changing the way we understand human society and discusses how the disciplines of politics, culture, public debate, morality, and humanism will be affected when responsibility for them is delegated to technology.
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Everyone on HN should read "To Save Everything: Click Here": https://www.amazon.com/Save-Everything-Click-Here-Technologi... I don't entirely agree with it, but it's a much needed contrarian viewpoint.
on “Facebook is terrifying” ↗…to be a very succinct, sober analysis of ML ("AI") techno-solutionism. Cory is a great writer and knows how to explain ideas in a simple, no-nonsense way. This article reminded me of Evgeny Morozov's "To Save Everything, Click Here", where you can find many more examples of how focusing on the quantitative aspect of a problem and ignoring the social, qualitative context it around it often goes wrong. https://bookshop.org/books/to-save-everything-click-here-the...
on “Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results (2020)” ↗Evgeny Morozov. His recent book To Save Everything, Click Here and earlier book The Net Delusion could be exactly what you are looking for. (I haven't read them myself, have only read reviews.) Seconding Shoshana Zuboff also. Her latest book is The Age of Surveillance…
on “The Noam Chomsky of IT” ↗I need to read Illich. I've been following The Convivial Society, a newsletter whose author is very influenced by Illich. My introduction to tech criticism was To Save Everything, Click Here by Evgeny Morozov. He describes a lot of tech culture as "solutionism" which I think is a great lens to have in your pocket.
on “Ask HN: Good books on philosophy of engineering?” ↗Books I imagine will have 'tremendous' (what a prior, lol) effect Non-fiction; Slavoj Zizek's Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism Evgeny Morozov's To Save Everything Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism Fiction; William Gibson's Neuromancer Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought)
on “Please recommend a book to read. List for 2015” ↗…self-determination, if the locations had not been broadcast on government radio channels... sigh [0] http://www.evgenymorozov.com [1] https://www.ted.com/talks/evgeny_morozov_is_the_internet_wha... [2] See "To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism" by Evgeny Morozov
on “Iran's blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web” ↗I have the feeling Evgeny Morozov could have included this in his "To save everything, click here" http://clickherethebook.com/
on “Malariaspot.org A game to help diagnose malaria” ↗Evgeny Morozov calls it "technology solutionism' in his book To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
on “Solutions to social problems must consider the human perspective” ↗