To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
- ISBN-10
- 1610391381
- ISBN-13
- 9781610391382
- Category
- Computers
- Pages
- 415
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-03-05
- Publisher
- Public Affairs
- Author
- Evgeny Morozov
Description
Argues that technology is changing the way we understand human society and discusses how the disciplines of politics, culture, public debate, morality, and humanism will be affected when responsibility for them is delegated to technology.
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