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Move Slow and Upgrade

The Power of Incremental Innovation

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Pub Date Feb 05 2026 | Archive Date Jan 29 2026

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Description

For far too long, tech titans peddled promises of disruptive innovation - fabricating benefits and minimizing harms. The promise of quick and easy fixes overpowered a growing chorus of critical voices, driving a sea of private and public investments into increasingly dangerous, misguided, and doomed forms of disruption, with the public paying the price. But what's the alternative? Upgrades - evidence-based, incremental change. Instead of continuing to invest in untested, high-risk innovations, constantly chasing outsized returns, upgraders seek a more proven path to proportional progress. This book dives deep into some of the most disastrous innovations of recent years - the metaverse, cryptocurrency, home surveillance, and AI, to name a few - while highlighting some of the unsung upgraders pushing real progress each day. Timely and corrective, Move Slow and Upgrade pushes us past the baseless promises of innovation, towards realistic hope.

For far too long, tech titans peddled promises of disruptive innovation - fabricating benefits and minimizing harms. The promise of quick and easy fixes overpowered a growing chorus of critical...


Advance Praise

“With a sure hand and clear voice, Selinger and Cahn share a revolutionary new approach to the automated age: patient, mindful, and deliberately incremental development. In an age when our leading technologists seek to crash the systems by which we live, here’s a hopeful and actionable path to a human-centered future.” Douglas Rushkoff, author of Team Human and Survival of the Richest

“In this wise and timely book, Evan Selinger and Albert Fox Cahn offer an incisive critique of the ‘move fast and break things’ ideology of innovation that has done such harm to society in recent years. But they do something more: They provide a practical alternative, an approach to technological progress that aims not to disrupt people’s lives but to make them richer and more fulfilling.” Nicholas Carr, author of Superbloom and The Shallows

“Move Slow and Upgrade isn’t just the perfect title, it’s a mantra we should shout from the rooftops.” Kate Klonick, Associate Professor, St. John’s Law School

“Move Slow and Upgrade is the perfect book for our high-tech moment: An ode to the joys and power of carefully and meticulously improving our high-tech systems, instead of lunging for the latest shiny toy. It’s also a fun read – crammed with fascinating stories. Read it and upgrade yourself.” Clive Thompson, author of Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World

“With a sure hand and clear voice, Selinger and Cahn share a revolutionary new approach to the automated age: patient, mindful, and deliberately incremental development. In an age when our leading...


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EDITION Hardcover
ISBN 9781009466578
PRICE $27.95 (USD)
PAGES 240

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