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A review by squeenie53
To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism by Evgeny Morozov
2.0
I wanted and expected to love this book. Unfortunately, Morozov seems to have an axe to grind, and he's using it to split hairs.
He hates the absolutist notion that the Internet can make everything better. Fine. But he basically does the same thing in reverse, evaluating experiments in social reform not on their merits, but on how much they carry the taint of "Internet solutionism".
Or he'll say (and I'm paraphrasing), "Internet-centrists say Apple is bad because it's not open. But open isn't necessarily better." Or maybe it is, but we'll never know because he doesn't take the argument further.
Still, his core point -- that the Internet is not as revolutionary as it would seem, and that we should be skeptical of revolutionary rhetoric that encourages radical interventions into our lives with unforeseen (negative) consequences -- is a valid one.
He hates the absolutist notion that the Internet can make everything better. Fine. But he basically does the same thing in reverse, evaluating experiments in social reform not on their merits, but on how much they carry the taint of "Internet solutionism".
Or he'll say (and I'm paraphrasing), "Internet-centrists say Apple is bad because it's not open. But open isn't necessarily better." Or maybe it is, but we'll never know because he doesn't take the argument further.
Still, his core point -- that the Internet is not as revolutionary as it would seem, and that we should be skeptical of revolutionary rhetoric that encourages radical interventions into our lives with unforeseen (negative) consequences -- is a valid one.