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"I don't think you realize how ubiquitous and critical to everyday life software is becoming." You can talk to people and drive around in your car. You feel y
by paulhauggis 15y ago
"I don't think you realize how ubiquitous and critical to everyday life software is becoming."
You can talk to people and drive around in your car. You feel you need to use things that track you, but it's not true. You choose to.
There is a difference.
- Estragon 15y agoWhen those things become essential to civic discourse, the line between need and choose gets blurry. How many people choose to go without cell phones without being branded as RMS-type weirdos? And the recent thread on RMS's rejection of facebook had lots of complaints about the resistance people face for staying off facebook, and the price they pay in terms of disconnection from the discourses of their social circles. Yes, these are choices, but the price paid for rejecting these choices is getting higher and higher.