Evgeny MorozovPaperback, 432 pages9780241957707 Technology, Solutionism, and the Urge to Fix Problems that Don't Exist 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. Content1. Solutionism and Its Discontents2. The Nonsense of "the Internet" — and How to Stop It3. So Open It Hurts4. How to Break Politics by Fixing It5. The Perils of Algorithmic Gatekeeping6. Less Crime, More Punishment7. Galton's iPhone8. 'The Superhuman Condition9. Smart Gadgets, Dumb Humans
