“This time it’s not fatigue, but disconnection”

Riccardo Mori:

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.