In the very near future, asmarta technologies and abig dataa 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 asolutionisma 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 everythingafrom crime to corruption to pollution to obesityaby 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 improvementabut 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 Valleyas digital straitjacket.Ita#39;s much likelier that the biography of that obscure Japanese general will be written if the author knows hea#39;ll receive an ... Thanks to its Kindle e-reader, Amazon already collects a wealth of information about individual readers as well asanbsp;...
Title | : | To Save Everything, Click Here |
Author | : | Evgeny Morozov |
Publisher | : | PublicAffairs - 2013 |
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