To save everything, click here : technology, solutionism and the urge to fix problems that don't exist

By Evgeny V. Morozov. 2013

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Fairness and Abstraction in Sociotechnical Systems (2019, background): “This might be recognized as the "law of the instrument" (colloquially described as "if you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail") [41] or "technological solutionism" [56].”
Research through design fiction: narrative in real and imaginary abstracts (2014, background): “In a recent book Morozov castigates the “solutionism” he detects in many research prototypes [38].”
Postdigital science and education (2018, background): “…problemas sociales para los cuales Silicon Valley ofreció soluciones escurridizas y sencillas fueron quizás demasiado simplistas para comenzar (ver Morozov, 2013), mientras las ‘revoluciones’ prometidas por los datos masivos y los algoritmos a menudo tendieron a reproducir sus propios y…”
The ethics of smart cities and urban science (2016, background): “instrumental rationality that underpins the notion that cities can be steered and managed through a set of data levers and analytics and that urban issues can be solved through a range of technical solutions [8,23,24].”
Machine learning, social learning and the governance of self-driving cars (2018, background): “The imagined purposes of technologies and their justification are tightly linked to the definition of particular problems (Morozov, 2013).”
From data fetishism to quantifying selves: Self-tracking practices and the other values of data (2017, unknown): “As Morozov (2013) cautions, “Human experience, run through the quantification mill, is reduced to little more than a stream of silent and mind-numbing bytes” (p. 256).”