An excerpt (hopefully apropos) from Digital Vegan "Computing choices create real power relationships and enable invisible abuse, by exclusion or marginalisat

An excerpt (hopefully apropos) from Digital Vegan "Computing choices create real power relationships and enable invisible abuse, by exclusion or marginalisation. Computing choices probably have a far more profound effect on peoples' lives and practices than their choice of friends, religious affiliations or sexual preferences. Roughly, according to the American Time Use Survey and the 2014 Pew Research Social Networking Fact Sheet, we spend on average, 0.5 hours a day in prayer and group worship, 0.5 hours engaged in social and conversational activities, 0.35 hours in romantic and sexual activity and 8.0 hours of screen time, of which 3.0 hours is interactive [Pew14]. This places computing, and the choices of operating system, applications, and workflows right at the centre of a Western adult's life." Street protests over software does seem a tad odd. But as power concentrates in the hands of ever fewer digital oligarchs I expect we'll see all sorts of push-back against effective mandates and life-patterns foisted upon populations by unelected power.