Description
Product ID: | 9780241957707 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | To Save Everything, Click Here |
Subtitle: | Technology, Solutionism, and the Urge to Fix Problems that Don't Exist |
Authors: | Author: Evgeny Morozov |
Page Count: | 432 |
Subjects: | Media studies, Media studies, Impact of science and technology on society, Information technology: general topics, Impact of science & technology on society, Information technology: general issues |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Our gadgets are getting smarter. Technology can log what we buy, customize what we consume and enable us to save and share every aspect of our existence. In the future, we're told, it will even make public life - from how we're governed to how we record crime - better. But can the digital age fix everything? Should it? Our gadgets are getting smarter. Technology can log what we buy, customize what we consume and enable us to save and share every aspect of our existence. In the future, we''re told, it will even make public life - from how we''re governed to how we record crime - better. But can the digital age fix everything? Should it? By quantifying our behaviour, Evgeny Morozov argues, we are profoundly reshaping society - and risk losing the opacity and imperfection that make us human. |
Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2014-07-03 |