Hard copies just arrived!
I suppose one year to the day counts as ‘soon‘ in the world of scholarly publishing.
Steve Fuller sent me this review of Evgeny Morozov’s latest book:
A Net Skeptic’s Conservative Manifesto – Reason.com.
Of note was the comparison of Morozov with Oakeshott:
It remains unclear just how far Morozov would go to defeat “the cult of efficiency” that he says haunts us. Would he join Oakeshott in insisting that “the onus of proof, to show that the proposed change may be expected to be on the whole beneficial, rests with the would-be innovator”—in other words, applying the precautionary principle to technological change? Morozov’s solutionism of “erratic appliances” and “technological troublemakers” would certainly constitute a preemptive, precautionary approach to digital regulation, should anyone attempt to apply them.
I haven’t read the book, yet. But this review makes me want to do so. Even if I don’t agree with Morozov’s conclusions — and I’m not saying I don’t or won’t — he seems to be asking some of the right questions.
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