The slow death of the power user.

"This isn’t an accident. This is the result of two decades of deliberate, calculated effort by the largest technology companies on earth to turn users into consumers, instruments into appliances, and technical literacy into a niche hobby for weirdos. They succeeded beyond their wildest expectations"

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/

#technology #tech #sustainability

The Slow Death of the Power User — fireborn

@koen_hufkens Even with the advent of #bioinformatics, helping integrate inherent DNA hardware, providing potential curriculum proficiency; the decline has followed the path of overt #Capitalism in conditioning 'easiest path' behaviors, aligning too often with gravity = varying degrees of collapse.

And the more 'global' and powerful the concentration of this effect, the steeper the collapse/extinction(s).

Similar can be mapped to #Communism, leaving more room between for #DemocraticSocialism.