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The man who's crashing the techno-hype party

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By Jim Giles

20 February 2013

Evgeny Morozov does a good job of dispelling “big data” hype in To Save Everything, Click Here, but fails to explore the way we shape the tech we use

IF SILICON VALLEY is a party, Evgeny Morozov is the guy who turns up late and spoils the fun. The valley loves ambitious entrepreneurs with world-changing ideas. Morozov is, in his own words, an “Eastern European curmudgeon”. He’s wary of quick fixes and irritated by hype. He’s the guy who saunters over to the technophiles gathered around the punch bowl and tells them, perhaps in too much detail, how misguided they…

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