Kentaro Toyama

Toyama takes aim at the popular idea of technological utopianism--that technology, often in the form of prepackaged interventions, will solve problems (particularly in education). Instead, he argues, technology is only a tool that is shaped by its users and amplifies what is already happening.

Loses a star for being a little too brief and slapdash, but the central thesis is convincing. Politicians who believe the solution is iPads and blended learning should read this.

I disagreed, and still disagree, but good counterpoint reading for a tech evangelist.