To Save Everything, Click Here

By Evgeny Morozov

Dave Thackeray
Jul 25, 2017 · 2 min read

This is a wildly pointed essay — a long one, because it fills a book — unguarded in describing how the way we use technology is changing our moral fibre and left unchecked, will untether our principles and humanitarian compass altogether.

Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism is, as you can imagine, a romp through collectivism and how we risk abandoning civilisation as we have recognised it for more than a thousand years, if we continue to harness optimism leveraging technology as our capacious conduit and arbiter of what is right and just.

I didn’t expect to be sucked in to Morozov’s narrative here. It is dystopian and bleak and revolutionary in how he sets the context for this book that described in minute detail our relentless advance to the edge of the cliff and how societally and philosophically our paths deviate to such an intense degree that at this point in our evolution technology needs only to apply a light touch to our backs to push us into the abyss where we are reductively compromised and left with a shattered and insidious future — from which we might never return.

Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism is a startling but necessary addition to your reading list. It’s available at Amazon.

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