A litmus test for technology critics

Evgeny Morozov haswritten, in The Baffler, a critique of technology criticism in the guise of a review of my book The Glass Cage. He makesimportant and valid points, as he always does— Morozov’s intellect is admirablyfierce and hungry —but his conclusions about the nature and value of technology criticism arewrong-headed, theirimplicationspernicious. Morozov wants to narrow the sights of suchcriticism, to declare as invalid any critical approachthat isn’t consistent with his own point of vie...