Freedom as a Service

A startling analysis of how tech solutionism is obscuring creative problem-solving toward a more equitable society.

From smart devices that help reduce one''s carbon footprint to apps where one can buy themed portfolios of companies that promote vegan or LGBTQ-friendly causes, corporations appear to be producing, at light speed, solutions to our most preoccupying social problems. You, as a conscientious user, just need to buy in. Welcome to solutionism.

In Freedom as a Service, tech''s most formidable critic, Evgeny Morozov, identifies a new stage of capitalism: organic capitalism, a system that is happy to admit to its own failures while unleashing more capitalist solutions to them. Under organic capitalism, -platform populism- enables a multitude of solutionist interventions while also creating the illusion that the users are in charge. And, Morozov argues, it''s the left that is most susceptible to this Trojan horse, as technocratic approaches are comb