> then technology needs a huge lobotomy! Yes, it does. It really, really does. The absolutely human-toxic nature of most modern consumer tech ("You buy me, I

> then technology needs a huge lobotomy! Yes, it does. It really, really does. The absolutely human-toxic nature of most modern consumer tech ("You buy me, I feed you ads, and collect absolutely as much data as I can to improve the ads other people pay me to deliver to you!" model being the core complaint here) has done a huge amount of damage to humanity. There are upsides, but we culturally seem horrible at actually evaluating things fairly. Always-on devices, constantly sending notifications, are just horrible to every aspect of humans - and the more we learn about just how horrible the are, the better the companies involved refine their ability to "drive their users nuts" for more eyeball-time to view ads, desired or not. So, yes, if what you get out of my writings are that we should radically pull back on what consumer tech is and can do, you're evaluating my position quite accurately.