“This time it’s not fatigue, but disconnection”
What is happening with the monetise & weaponise strategy, instead, is this progressive fracture and disconnect between tech companies and regular people. A disconnect where people at various levels of tech-savvy feel equally at odds with the behaviour of many tech companies. I certainly don’t view tech as an ally or as something that should benefit me or improve my life anymore. More like a user of technology, I increasingly feel used and lied to by it; I feel like a mere instrument that exists to guarantee its survival.
My idea of being a luddite is more like someone who keeps advocating that technology should be in our service, and not vice-versa. Technology seems to be on a path of eroding people’s agency, whereas I want people to have more agency and to be less ‘personal data fodder’.
Riccardo accomplishes two extraordinary things in this article:
- He successfully puts into words what so many of us in the larger tech community (however you define that) have been feeling over the last few years.
- He authored one of his best posts ever. That’s no small feat.