Incredibly cancerous technology that is obliterating privacy and eclipsing local control of devices.
Following the lead of Microsoft PC, the device is a trojan horse for unstated, unregulated interests of the app.
The half-life of enshittification of any commons based on this technology should be expected to be an order of magnitude shorter than it was for the web, and malicious application causing an order of magnitude greater damage.
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Trekkies have already foretold the hazard (withstanding the already totalitarian dimensions of the premise of Star Trek's Federation):
ep. 106 "The Game" -> social-media pleasure/pain pathos and distortion and exploitation of human relationships.
ep. 25 "Conspiracy" -> parasitic infection of command & control structures that pollute autonomy.
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We're on the cusp of becoming enslaved by the organizations designing this tech.
If that sounds hyperbolic, merely notice that the entire computing industry has pivoted away from the personal towards the corporate under conditions of war, usurping production and deployment of this technology at a planetary scale, within a time-frame of a decade for AI versus a century for pre-AI computing.
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Following the lead of Microsoft PC, the device is a trojan horse for unstated, unregulated interests of the app.
The half-life of enshittification of any commons based on this technology should be expected to be an order of magnitude shorter than it was for the web, and malicious application causing an order of magnitude greater damage.
--
Trekkies have already foretold the hazard (withstanding the already totalitarian dimensions of the premise of Star Trek's Federation):
ep. 106 "The Game" -> social-media pleasure/pain pathos and distortion and exploitation of human relationships.
ep. 25 "Conspiracy" -> parasitic infection of command & control structures that pollute autonomy.
-- We're on the cusp of becoming enslaved by the organizations designing this tech.
If that sounds hyperbolic, merely notice that the entire computing industry has pivoted away from the personal towards the corporate under conditions of war, usurping production and deployment of this technology at a planetary scale, within a time-frame of a decade for AI versus a century for pre-AI computing.