Quotes About Solutionism

'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.

But you technical people have a disease: it's called 'solutionism.' You see every challenge as a problem and every problem as having a solution and every solution as being a piece of technology. You hare off after those solutions without ever stopping to see whether there's another, worse problem that'll burst into life the moment the current one is 'solved.