issues.mdwn (1196B)
1 There are several issues in today's computing. 2 3 If the information and communications technology (ICT) industry was purposefully 4 following a harmful agenda, these would probably be their design principles: 5 6 * disregard for life 7 * disregard for the chips 8 * more is better 9 * assume limitless resources 10 * keep it controlled 11 * outsource the problem 12 * amplify ignorance 13 * obfuscate everything 14 * destroy communities 15 * achieve monopoly 16 17 While the industry is rarely discussed in this way, there are increasingly 18 well-documented issues in the dominant computational cultural paradigm which all 19 together help better explain how such a harmful agenda can emerge explicitly or 20 implicitly. 21 22 Additional topics to explore: 23 24 * **inaccessible:** [[greenwashing]], [[Californian ideology]], [[otherness]], 25 [[pseudosimplicity]] 26 * **incompatible:** vendor lock-in, proprietary 27 * **inefficient:** [[bloat]], [[maximalism]], [[cryptocurrency]], 28 [[calculation factory]], [[cornucopianism]] 29 * **rigid:** [[monoculture]], [[siliconization]] 30 * **failing:** [[silver bullet]], [[planned obsolescence]], [[wishcycling]], 31 [[software rot]] 32 * **extractivist:** attention economy, capitalism, [[Big Tech]], neoliberalism