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Morozov's 2013 polemic introducing solutionism into mainstream discourse — the book whose title was designed to irritate precisely the people who most needed to read it.
To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism (PublicAffairs, 2013) is the work in which Morozov named the ideological formation he had been circling since The Net Delusion. The book dissected the Silicon Valley habit of treating every human experience as a problem awaiting its technological fix, arguing that this habit was not merely mistaken but ideologically dangerous — a framework that systematically depoliticized inherently political questions by recasting them as engineering challenges.
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The book's polemical force derives from its specificity. Morozov did not attack technology abstractly; he dismantled concrete examples of solutionist thinking across dozens of domains — from gamified health apps to smart trash cans to algorithmic dating. In each case he showed how the technical intervention, however well-intentioned, redefined the experience it addressed in ways that discarded precisely the dimensions that mattered most.
The central argument was that experiences are not problems. A problem has parameters; it can