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Okay. I have said a fair amount. Thank you for hearing me out. There is a lot more I could say, but I will reserve that for other portions of the website (whenever I get to those).
Let me summarise the complaints I’ve made in this section:
Modern tech is great in some ways, but corrupt in many others.
Computers are everywhere and in everything.
The tech world is almost completely invisible.
Software is a person.
Your phone screen is a one-way mirror.
Invisible abuse, masked by maximally attractive/addicting products is creating invisible apathy in the average user.
Your life, your mind and your data is extremely valuable.
You are being coaxed into opening your precious life up to complete strangers.
Always-online culture is driven by data-hungry corporations who have no care for anything other than owning your data and your attention, with no regard to your well-being.
Okay, that’s about everything. These sentences are getting longer and I told myself I’d keep it quick.
Now let’s talk solutions.