"David Roberts chat with author Cory Doctorow about "enshittification," his viral term for how digital platforms and smart technologies inevitably get worse over time. We explore how monopoly power, aggressive IP protections, and lax privacy law enable companies to capture and exploit users — and what that might mean for the clean energy transition as our homes and vehicles become increasingly software-dependent."—Volts

Can We Avoid The Enshittification Of Clean-Energy Tech? >

https://www.volts.wtf/p/can-we-avoid-the-enshittification

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Can we avoid the enshittification of clean-energy tech?

Cory Doctorow describes how software platform technologies go wrong and what it might look like when our homes and vehicles are on those platforms.

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@glynmoody
Its #virtueSignalling they've moved onto new methods of #suggestion, #autoCompletion of #searchTerms and #propaganda disguised as #news.

They still have the power to deny people to #banking and other web services with onerous #reCaptcha, plans to dominate w #selfDrivingCars, can access people's #email, documents, #cloudStorage, #translations, #homeDevices, and #mapServices etc

Too much #monopoly #power between those four entities.

#Facebook are big but just a #socialMedia platform.