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tumblehawk 's review for:
The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
by Evgeny Morozov
A refreshing read in the age of cyber-utopianism. Morozov gets unfairly labeled as either being an anti-tech Luddite and an Internet-hater but he actually carves out a great argument for more reasonable approaches to technology and shifting our perspectives on it to understand that it's not technologies that shape societies so much as societies that shape technologies. Technologies change rapidly but human nature far less so. The penultimate chapter is a fantastic exploration of the ways in which people have talked about various technologies in the past (radio/airplanes/TV/computer chips) in much the same way they talk aout the Internet today. And while the internet IS different from all those technologies in many ways, the quasi-religious unfettered optimism in tech circles seems much the same. I recommend this read!