Solutionism
The belief that every problem has a clean, often technological fix. Solutionism underestimates complexity and the possibility that some problems must be managed, not solved.
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Origin
The term was popularized by Belarusian-American scholar Evgeny Morozov in his 2013 book To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism. Morozov criticized an endemic Silicon Valley ideology that recasts complex social phenomena — politics, public health, education — as "neatly defined problems with definite, computable solutions." The word itself has older roots in urban planning and architecture, but Morozov's formulation gave it broad relevance in technology criticism and policy debate.
Updated February 22, 2026