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If the trend moves towards a total societal reliance on smartphones as tools of everyday life, and a couple decades down the path it becomes impossible to opt o
by paavoova 8y ago
If the trend moves towards a total societal reliance on smartphones as tools of everyday life, and a couple decades down the path it becomes impossible to opt out while still retaining a normal lifestyle and career, then it matters. It matters even more so that the average person is making this push, because, as you bring up, it's ripe for exploit (e.g. recent events in China with state-sponsored malware installed on phones).
- oblio 8y agoI think you're missing my point. This is not a tech problem. It's a people problem. The most dystopian tools ever imagined can be perfectly harmless if the people using them don't want to use them for dystopian purposes. It's only moving towards a dystopy because people don't care or know enough. That's what has to be fixed.