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020			_a9781846145490
082			_a302.231 _bM6T6
100			_aMorozov, Evgeny _9225050
245			_aTo save everything, click here: technology, solutionism and the urge to fix problems that don't exist _cMorozov, Evgeny
260			_c2013 _bAllen Lane _aLondon
300			_axv, 413 p.
365			_aINR _b699.00
520			_aTo Save Everything, Click Here: Technology, Solutionism, and the Urge toFix Problems that Don't Exist Author: Morozov Evgeny Price: $29.99 Our society is at a crossroads. Smart technology is transforming our world, making many aspects of our lives more convenient, efficient and - in some cases - fun. Better and cheaper sensors can now be embedded in almost everything, and technologies can log the products we buy and the way we use them. But, argues Evgeny Morozov, technology is having a more profound effect on us: it is changing the way we understand human society. In the very near future, technological systems will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions into many more areas of public life. These are the discourses by which we have always defined our civilisation: politics, culture, public debate, morality, humanism. But how will these disciplines be affected when we delegate much of the responsibility for them to technology? The temptation of the digital age is to fix everything - from crime to corruption to pollution to obesity - by digitally quantifying, tracking, or gamifiying behaviour. But when we change the motivations for our moral, ethical and civic behaviour, do we also change the very nature of that behaviour? Technology, Morozov proposes, can be a force for improvement - but only if we abandon the idea that it is necessarily revolutionary and instead genuinely interrogate why and how we are using it. From urging us to drop outdated ideas of the Internet to showing how to design more humane and democratic technological solutions, To Save Everything, Click Here is about why we will always need to consider the consequences of the way we use technology.
650			_aInternet - Social aspects
650			_aInternet in public administration
650			_aHuman services - Technological innovations
650			_aTechnological innovations - Social aspects
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