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To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism Hardcover – March 5, 2013

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  • Hardcover: 432 pages
  • Publisher: PublicAffairs; 45555th edition (March 5, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1610391381
  • ISBN-13: 978-1610391382
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsMorozov pulls no punches
By Will Jackson on March 8, 2013
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Wow, this one will surely prove controversial. Morozov is like Mike Tyson of Internet punditry: from the very first pages of "To Save Everything...", he goes straight for the jugular, accusing a coterie of fellow Internet intellectuals for treating what he calls "the Internet" - he uses it in square quotes throughout the book - as a fixed entity, with its own logic and inspirit. What he wants instead is a more dynamic, constructivist account that would recognize the sheer diversity of logics that "the Internet" represents. This is Morozov's critique of Internet-centrism.

There's also a second, parallel critique that he advances in the book: that of solutionism - which he defines as the tendency to define problems as problems based solely on the fact that we have nice and quick technological solutions for solving them. The book then traces how these two intellectual pathologies - solutionism and Internet-centrism - interact in the context of recent efforts to fix politics, promote transparency, track and gamify everything, make crime impossible through situational crime prevention and predictive policing, and so forth.

It's not an easy book to read, not least because Morozov draws on what must be hundreds of thinkers to make his point. (And, wow, his range is impressive: I'm yet to read a book that references both Paul Ricoeur and Jeff Jarvis!) While it's a challenging read, it proves very rewarding, especially as the book progresses. The sections on design are to kill for.

There's a bit of "everyone but me is wrong" feel to this book but it's hardly a good reason to ignore it - what if Morozov is, indeed, right that everyone is wrong? Whatever one makes of him and his style, this book is so far the most significant challenge to the mindset of Silicon Valley and its apologists in the tech media and the lecture circuit (Morozov helpfully namechecks most of them in the book!)
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5.0 out of 5 starsFinally, a decent critique of Internet as ideology
By Peter Socolow on March 8, 2013
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Snarky? Check. Contrarian? Check. Demanding? Check. That's enough checks for me: most books don't go that far. So, to be blunt: whatever its flaws, this book deserves to be widely read and argued about. Is it perfect? Hell no. Morozov doesn't know when to stop and he is occasionally too full of himself to be enjoyable; at times, this book reads like "Imagine That: Some People Are Wrong on the Internet About the Internet." (Morozov, of course, would say that this last sentence is pure nonsense, for "the Internet" doesn't exist. Okay, Professor!) He's lucky his relatives are no Internet theorists - or he would destroy them as well (that's a Pavlik Morozov joke right there!)

The book somehow manages to stay extremely funny (Morozov has a great eye for the ridiculous and the surreal; his epigrams are hilarious - especially the Franny Armstrong quote comparing soccer and the Internet) and also very serious (too serious at times; there's way too much theory in it - it could easily lose some Dewey and Giddens, not to mention of that other enfant terrible, Bruno Latour).

There's a certain schizophrenic flavor to this text: after all, here's an Internet pundit writing a biting manifesto against Internet punditry. Morozov's critique is both of substance that underpins much Internet thinking - it overlooks deeply political and moral questions and only focuses on efficiency and innovation - and of its style - it presents the Internet as a coherent and revolutionary force, a theoretical move that we have taken for granted for far too long.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Thomas Jefferson against solutionism
By Isaac on June 26, 2013
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This is one of the most profound books I have ever read. For once, someone is brave enough to stand up to the flowery technologists and thrust their "out of this world" back in to orbit. As someone who respects true computer science and taught themselevs C++ , I am worried to see such corrupt people tear at the field. This book is a must for everybody ranging from the solutionists to the Luddite.
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5.0 out of 5 starsTimely and necessary
By Michael Morse on March 31, 2013
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The computer revolution has affected humanity more forcefully than anything since the industrial revolution. Among the prominent effects of such profound shifts is an appalling anesthetization of thinking capacity. Roughly, the old ways don't work any more, and the new aren't developed enough to work properly. The upshot is a helpless stasis, in which two sides sputter meaninglessly at each other. Intellectual adherents of the traditions into which they were born--virtually everyone with a brain--have no choice but to react to the novelties with backward looking resistance. But champions of the new rarely know what they're talking about, having both dismissed everything ever written previously, but also failing to notice that they have no concepts to celebrate the new except advertising slogans and vapid tosh. They, too, though they serve up bring jargon-rich enthusiasm, have no real understanding of what is happening.

Enter Evgeny Morozov. This book is a scathing attack on advocates of "the Internet," which Morozov invariably and rightly puts in scare quotes, because its champions celebrate a sinister chimera. It is a careful and thoughtful analysis of how we do and can think, of how can formulate our problems in order to solve them. The connection of these two aims is the heart of the book. Morozov makes a formidable and depressing case for a crazed, cheerleaderly numbness in our time, in which enthusiasm for technological means makes us virtually incapable of understanding their relation to real and possible ends. At the least, he annihilates the case for cyber utopias and technological optimism, through convincing demonstrations that they are poorly argued and factually groundless.Read more ›
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1.0 out of 5 starsOverlong and mean-spirited, lacks objectivity

OK, the two main points are well made. Solutionism and Internet Centrism are generally not helpful.

Unfortunately these points were made in the introduction. Read more

Published 4 months ago by Leeroy Jenkins
2.0 out of 5 starsDisappointing. Formulaic. Lacking originality. I did not find it...

As someone deeply interested in how technology is changing society I believed I would like this book and learn from it. Read more

Published 7 months ago by Modern Primate
5.0 out of 5 starsIndispensable critique to Solutionism

This book is a relentless critique of “solutionism” and “internet centrism”.
Solutionism is the belief that every problem that humankind faces can be solved by the use of... Read more

Published 11 months ago by Cliente de Amazon
5.0 out of 5 starsThis book concentrates on introducing to the problems that come from...

Evgeny Morozov is an essential voice for all of us regarding all kinds of factors about our relationship with the Internet. Read more

Published 14 months ago by Amazon Customer
2.0 out of 5 starsPainful

I had to purchase this for a graduate class, and this is a painful read. It is difficult to understand, and the writing is pretentious. It's riddled with spelling errors. Read more

Published 17 months ago by CB
4.0 out of 5 starsCan Tech Save the World?

Small print in the title of this book - “The Folly of Tech Solutionism” - pretty much summarizes what it is about if one simply ignores attendant implications, and mind boggling... Read more

Published 19 months ago by Phillip Skaga
5.0 out of 5 starshelpful book but I couldn't sell it back to my campus (Ohio State...

alright book

Published 19 months ago by Nathan
4.0 out of 5 starsA dense but thought-provoking book

I enjoyed this book, but it was difficult to digest in more than 5-10 pages at a time. There are times when the examples move along quickly. Read more

Published 21 months ago by William Treseder
5.0 out of 5 starsIn all probability, `To Save Everything, Click Here' is the best book...

I'm a Dutch journalist:

Evgeny Morozov's Bitter Experience of getting it Right

`The internet' doesn't exist and doesn't offer remedies for countless big and... Read more

Published 22 months ago by Peter Olsthoorn
4.0 out of 5 starsThis is an interesting book and I really like Morozov's critique of...

This is an interesting book and I really like Morozov's critique of solutionism. I do think that he could look beyond the realm of ICT solutionism though

Published 24 months ago by MR N S ECCLES

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