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It seems to me that any theory of techno-optimism needs to have a plan for enshitifcation. As far as I can tell, at least in information technology, what we've
by harimau777 3y ago
It seems to me that any theory of techno-optimism needs to have a plan for enshitifcation.
As far as I can tell, at least in information technology, what we've lost to enshitification has mostly matched or exceeded what we've gained in the last ten to twenty years.
Due to SEO and Google dumbing down search, discoverability on the web is mostly dead. Wikipedia's insular obsession with being "encyclopedic" has destroyed much of what made it special and useful. We've mostly fallen back to "AOL Instant Messenger 2.0" in the form of Discord as the best we can do for social media. Reddit has become virtually the one place left where an average person can find information that isn't just SEO spam; however, Reddit's owners seem dead set on destroying it's usability as quickly as possible.
- tern 3y agoSaaS is pretty good though: anyone running a corporation can do so more efficiently, using automated payroll, hiring, accounting, etc. and collaborating with powerful coding, writing and design tools. Marketing and advertising is way easier to do at scale. Getting a message out to the world is incredibly easier. All of these things have costs, but I can't deny that if you want to get things done in the world, subject to certain parameters, the wheels are greased compared to the past.
- kortilla 3y agoI fail to see why payroll needs to be SaaS, or even hiring pipelines.
- Animats 3y agoPayroll has been software as a service since before computers. That's where ADP started, with plugboard-wired tabulating machines.
- harimau777 3y agoI see what you are saying; however, it doesn't seem that any of that has actually improved things. Online services may be easier to roll out and be more efficient; however, it doesn't seem like the quality of those services has actually increased.