The saddest thing for me about modern tech’s long spiral into user manipulation and surveillance is how it has just slowly killed off the joy that people like me used to feel about new tech. Every product Meta or Amazon announces makes the future seem bleaker and grayer. 1/n
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It used to be the opposite. Tech was one of the things I loved most. I still remember the feeling when I rode the first BART trains in SF. When I saw my first Concorde my little head exploded. My Commodore PET. The last time tech made me truly gleeful was these glories 2/3
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What will it take for us to get that feeling back? I don’t think it’s just my nostalgia, is it? There’s no longer anything being promised to us by tech companies that we actually need or asked for. Just more monitoring, more nudging, more draining of our data, our time, our joy.
most tech used to be hardware. the mass addiction to mobile phones makes tech business plans that aren't some kind of app hopeless and not funded
I hope that your conclusion is wrong, but honestly I don’t see how we get out of it. The model seems firmly entrenched — much control to be had, much money to be made.
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Education. Literacy and numeracy need to be joined by basic technical competence as a right not a privilege. Its the only way to rebalance power and control.
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I don't think we ever go "back" to anything. We always go forward. That said, until policy and accountability trickle into the market, the present and future look... syphoning....
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You just put my feelings into words. I don’t want another app or have to create another password. I want to have more tactile experiences. More face to face. Less time on a screen.
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It was the freedom then; now it’s all performance, agenda, and pressure. Maybe if we could somehow outlaw/boycott the collection and sale of human data as well as black box algorithms, and require/encourage interoperability, we could get something like it back… 🤷🏻♀️
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The ongoing forced obsolescence is damaging to the planet and absolutely unnecessary.
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