Edit: Sorry Sandersd, I did not carefefully read what you said "it's what people like us want them to want." - which is even more interesting! I would go one s

Edit: Sorry Sandersd, I did not carefefully read what you said "it's what people like us want them to want." - which is even more interesting! I would go one stage more "meta" and say; No. Actually one of the deep, deep problems in computer science and digital technology is the very idea that "we know what people want". Or that they know themselves. There is so much said in this forum and other software communities about "what people really want". Outside of quite narrow UX psychology - which deals mainly with how people prefer to complete tasks within paradigms that have already been selected for them - I know of little or no evidence based research on the lifestyle and societal choices around technology. That is why I frequently use the phrase *foisted upon" in Digital Vegan [1][2], to indicate the extraordinary errors of sentiment attribution that occur around tech. [1] https://digitalvegan.net https://digitalvegan.net [2] 'Foisted' is not the same as 'forced', but nontheless there is a 'great lie' that we tell ourselves about how markets of demand and supply work in realtion to technology.