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> manage to convince their users to behave well enough to fit into the box Perhaps this is a fundamental limitation of digital technology, if not all technolog
by walleeee 5y ago
> manage to convince their users to behave well enough to fit into the box
Perhaps this is a fundamental limitation of digital technology, if not all technology
Being the vastly more flexible party in any interaction with it, we tend to adapt to its particular set of affordances and constraints
This is often useful but opening any one door will close others: deployment at scale carries sociotechnical inertia
It also frequently inverts the agentic orientation: we build tools, use them, and before long find ourselves used by them