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Folks, for years: We have a problem called Surveillance Capitalism, it’s a systemic problem arising from socio-economic factors…
Ex-Googler: Hmm, this problem, very exotic… what shall I call it without criticising either surveillance or capitalism? Time well spent?
Folks: SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM! It’s the feedback loop between accumulation of information (surveillance) and accumulation of wealth (capitalism)
Ex-Googler: …human downgrading?
https://www.wired.com/story/tristan-harris-tech-is-downgrading-humans-time-to-fight-back/
www.wired.comTristan Harris: Tech Is ‘Downgrading Humans.’ It’s Time to Fight BackThe creator of the “time well spent” movement disappeared for a year, but now he’s come back with a new phrase and a plan to stop technology from from destroying free will, creating social anomie, and wrecking democracy.
Orwell's neolanguage -google version-, indeed. Very good analysis, @aral
@aral https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=838fCTkB8CA
It's a silly phrase. It would be better to talk about oppression or even better about "faulty technology" or "sub-standard technology" (notice, it's not the people using the technology who are at fault).
If we re-frame the whole thing as faulty then we can talk about how sillicon valley is pushing things which are *designed to perform badly* for their own narrow financial advantage. You could analogize it to adulturated food, which was a big problem in the past and was only eventually countered by regulations and inspection.
It's a silly phrase. It would be better to talk about oppression or even better about "faulty technology" or "sub-standard technology" (notice, it's not the people using the technology who are at fault).
If we re-frame the whole thing as faulty then we can talk about how sillicon valley is pushing things which are *designed to perform badly* for their own narrow financial advantage. You could analogize it to adulturated food, which was a big problem in the past and was only eventually countered by regulations and inspection.
@aral As an advocate to #TheVenusProject and #ResourceBasedEconomy, I do not like supporting capitalism and mass surveillance.
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