Brian’s Reviews > To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism > Status Update

The impact factor in academia and research; the absurd psychology of data qualifiers; more fodder for ideological conformism.

"Internet-centrism is beginning to block our ability to think of effective technological solutions to problems that do exist."

Government data and campaign finance information via search results all seem nice and simple when it's just a click away. The end product has no context. It's just a snapshot. Even when the aims are noble, the information being presented so easily is not productive.

Is the internet even an accelerant for change (revolution?) or are we just in love with telling ourselves that itvis?