A review by renaesense
To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism by Evgeny Morozov
4.0
The Internet will help us save everything.
If you frowned upon or scoffed at the above statement, and you love sarcasm and word play, then this book is for you. "Galton's iPhone" and "So Open It Hurts".. come on. Morozov addresses and unpacks our techno-utopian and solutionist view of the Internet, but in a more approachable, conversational manner. Take that with a pinch of salt though, because he comes off as someone who is irked by everything anyone else says about the Internet. So not so much conversation... but more like a conference speech. And at times, he honestly does come off like he is picking a personal bone with certain people.
It is however, still an important book! Perhaps not in itself, as it is quite skewed.. but in the grand scheme of things in media studies as it does reel in the overwhelmingly enthusiastic discourse surrounding the Internet's "ability" to solve our problems.
If you frowned upon or scoffed at the above statement, and you love sarcasm and word play, then this book is for you. "Galton's iPhone" and "So Open It Hurts".. come on. Morozov addresses and unpacks our techno-utopian and solutionist view of the Internet, but in a more approachable, conversational manner. Take that with a pinch of salt though, because he comes off as someone who is irked by everything anyone else says about the Internet. So not so much conversation... but more like a conference speech. And at times, he honestly does come off like he is picking a personal bone with certain people.
It is however, still an important book! Perhaps not in itself, as it is quite skewed.. but in the grand scheme of things in media studies as it does reel in the overwhelmingly enthusiastic discourse surrounding the Internet's "ability" to solve our problems.