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Evgeny Morozov
Belarusian-born technology critic (b. 1984) whose work on cyber-utopianism, solutionism, and AGI-ism has made him one of the few voices in the technology discourse engaging simultaneously with philosophy, political economy, and technical specifics.
Evgeny Morozov was born in Soligorsk, Belarus, in 1984, studied in Bulgaria, and continued his academic work at Georgetown and Harvard. His first book, The Net Delusion (2011), dismantled the prevailing assumption that the internet was an inherently democratizing force. His second, To Save Everything, Click Here (2013), introduced 'solutionism' into mainstream discourse. Through essays in The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Yorker, Boston Review, and New Left Review, he has extended his critique to artificial intelligence, coining the term 'AGI-ism' and developing the analysis of 'Panglossian neoliberalism.'
In The You On AI Field Guide
Morozov's intellectual distinctiveness lies in his refusal of the binary that structures most technology discourse. He is neither a celebrant nor a Luddite; he is neither a technical specialist speaking to other specialists nor a humanist critic speaking from safely outside the technical domain. He engages with the specifics of the systems he analyzes