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The digital landscape seems to be growing increasingly feudalistic. Users have increasingly less control over the products and services they use. -Instead of b
by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
The digital landscape seems to be growing increasingly feudalistic. Users have increasingly less control over the products and services they use.
-Instead of buying a movie or a song, you stream it
-You don't own your data in the cloud
-You don't own the music you buy from Apple
-You can't even take the battery out of many newer model phones
- deusum 9y agofeudalism n. A political and economic system of Europe from the 9th to about the 15th century, based on the holding of all land in fief or fee and the resulting relation of lord to vassal and characterized by homage, legal and military service of tenants, and forfeiture.
- wu-ikkyu 9y agoSeems like an apt description of tech giants like Facebook, Google, and Apple. Consider the inordinate attention (~homage) and data forfeiture which billions of people submit to those walled gardens (fiefs). It seems symbolic that so many spend so much of their day with their heads bowed down towards their phone.
- trophycase 9y agoParent clearly means feudalism in the abstract sense.
- deusum 9y agoHonestly, I searched for the definition expecting to disagree. I posted it when I realized parent was right, and figured I'm not the only person who hasn't studied feudalism in a while.
- CaptSpify 9y agoI don't think he came up with the term, but: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/12/feudal_sec.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/12/feudal_sec.ht...