In an age of bland, less-than-frank book criticism, what fun to read Evgeny Morozov’s views on the recently-published TED book, Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization by Parag and Ayesha Khanna.
Here are a few extracts from that review :
“The new pamphlet – it would be too strong… to call it a book”
“… the techno-babbling couple”
“… esoteric themes and irrelevant factoids”
“… this piece of digito-futuristic nonsense”
“… succinct and mind-numbing”
“… wannabe geopolitical theorist… only wired and cool”
“… writing pompous and alarmist books and articles”
“… linguistic constructions of such absurdity and superficiality”
“… gifted schmoozer”
“… intellectual impostor, emitting such lethal doses of banalities, inanities and generalizations”
“… manufacturer of abstract, meaningless slogans”
“… the most talented bullshit artist of his generation”
“At least TED Books… did not kill any trees in the publishing process”
George Orwell would have been proud of Mr Morozov. More! More!
Here’s the full review: http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/105703/the-naked-and-the-ted-khanna
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