His sprawling new work, "To Save Everything, Click Here", goes further.Mr Morozov attacks the technologists' urge to solve the world's woes by "recasting complex social situations as neatly defined problems".
At that moment, those goats were more organized and focused than my ragtag team of travelers and technologists trying to solve some really glaring global water problems.
Too many times have I seen great entrepreneurs beating their heads against markets that simply do not exist; too many times have I seen solutions from great technologists searching for problems to solve.
Other cities such as Boston, Louisville and San Francisco have established initiatives, projects and Offices of Civic Innovation where government, technologists, communities and residents are collaborating to solve problems through open-data initiatives and platforms.
Being a technologist himself, he simply built and app to solve this problem.
But give BlackBerry credit for getting ahead of the curve and trying to solve a problem that has concerned technologists as quantum computers begin to evolve.
A disproportionate number of new tech products aim to solve the problems of young urban technologists, simply because those are generally the people who define and build those products.
I also enjoy pulling together a team of people with different strengths and perspectives and interacting with customers to solve their problems, so instead of just being a technologist I also became a program manager and worked to launch new products.
Matt Sergeant, a senior anti- spam technologist at MessageLabs in Britain, said that for now, spammers may need humans to solve Gmail's captchas.
I challenge this generation of technologists to step forward and work together to tackle the problems that our society needs to solve – to eschew the hip, narrow approach to entrepreneurship.
