You know what scares us about big tech? Planned obsolescence.
You know what scares us about big tech? Planned obsolescence.
When devices are designed to become obsolete sooner than later, you know there is a problem. A problem that's getting scarier every day.
You're viewing a single thread.
Planned obsolescence isn't even in my top 10. The worst things about Big Tech are existential, like its use for mass espionage and murder by evil regimes.
Exactly. Planned obsolesce is an annoyance to my pocketbook. Violations of my privacy can completely screw me over for life.
We should absolutely solve both, but if I had to pick one, I'd go for privacy every time.
Planned obsolescence is a symptom of something which is, or aught to be, in your top 10 issues with big tech.
The biggest existential threat is still ecological destruction. Old growth forest are raised to the ground, the ocean is warming and acidifying as it absorbs CO2, and it's all to make computers and toasters that don't even last a decade.
Unless your planning on running your own infra for everything... I would argue planned obsolescence is a much greater and immediate threat.
Research is never long term. Imagine if the last 20yrs had been invested in increased ram and battery storage. Instead we have had a 20 halt on innovation in the residential side. Why big Phone wanted to stick with 4gb phone. And then 8gb so much so the reason they stopped was because it was becoming more expensive to make 8gb chips.
Unless you only pay cash, dont use Amazon to ship, google to research, Microsoft to compute... You are being tracked, the only difference now is the focus of the companies were for greed.
That's because you're a proud consumer who doesn't realize how maximizing profit is the motivation for everything you've mentioned.
Do you think you're being insightful or something? That's not even true, states sometimes compel and coerce firms for that information even when it may harm the profit incentive through reputational damage.
Right. It can't be that you're a proud consumer, because then you'd have to acknowledge your own contribution to the problem and criticize a culture you're dependent on.
Can't have that.
Again, I have no clue what you're talking about. I'm not going to live in a hut in the woods and neither are you.