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The author responds to Morozov's disastrously wrong-heaeded calls for ideological purity in tech critique here -

http://www.roughtype.com/?p=5764

It's easy to agree -

http://www.metareader.org/post/a-litmus-test-for-humanistic-...

Clearly this review was not written with people like me as the intended audience, as the introductory paragraphs were almost completely incomprehensible to me on my first pass through them.

That said, what follows is an excellent argument for why Nicholas Carr's The Glass Cage is terrible. I assume the introduction designed to prime the intended audience* for this argument.

* Which I assume is made up entirely of people whom I'd be very sad to find myself at a cocktail party with (although I expect they'd be similarly sad to find themselves at a cocktail party with me). I'm reminded of Cryptonomicon and Dr. G.E.B. Kivistic.

This article seems to be saying "Clearly technology is bad, now we just have to figure out a reason it's bad."

I read it more like "don't bother saying that technology is bad unless it helps advance the correct political agenda."

A more accurate summary in that style would be "Clearly neoliberalism is bad, now we just have to critique technology from that premise."

The Taming of Tech Criticism