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I don’t think it’s smartphones, I think it’s the fact that the entire ecosystem of our most used apps is a walled garden. Our entire experience is made up of pr
by thulecitizen 7y ago
I don’t think it’s smartphones, I think it’s the fact that the entire ecosystem of our most used apps is a walled garden. Our entire experience is made up of proprietary corporate apps. We have little choice to change or create our own information flows - everything is dictated by hidden code/algorithms. If I can’t see the code, I am not the one doing the controlling, I am being controlled. The most detrimental app we all use - banking and money creation, is the most hidden and unchallenged one so far. We’re still using the legacy Industrial Age money and banking system.
I think it’s time that we evolve to a more compassionate world.
To help build the distributed, cooperative and open source economy check out The MetaCurrency Project (Ceptr, Holochain), Secure Scuttlebutt and Manyverse, DAT, Loomio, CoBudget and others
What does the ‘More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible’ (Charles Eisenstein) look like to you?
Does having a closed source system for our communication, banking and governance tools help keep the ‘smartest’ people at the helm, or is this grandiosity and immature magician energy? Does it create an oppressor, victim and savior triangle?
- TheOtherHobbes 7y agoI don't think it's smartphones either. I think it's a philosophical issue with digital systems in general. The over-simplified abstractions, physical distancing, and flattening of affect lead to superficiality and constant unfocused distraction. Open/closed isn't even an issue compared to the limitations of the medium itself - because there is no such thing as a truly open digital system. Only the smartest people can create industrial-scale digital systems by definition, so the idea that opening up the source code will somehow change this is very hard to take seriously.