In the near future, "smart" technologies and "big data" will allow us to
make large-scale interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life.
Technology will allow us to solve problems in original ways and create
new incentives to get more people to do the right thing. But how will
such "solutionism" affect our society? What will happen when deeply
political, moral, and irresolvable problems are recast as
uncontroversial and easily manageable matters of technological
efficiency? 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.
Arguing that
we 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.
Evgeny Morozov
Contributing Editor, The New Republic
Author, To Save Everything, Click here
Christine Rosen
Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow, New America Foundation
Senior Editor, The New Atlantis
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Friday 27 December 2013
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