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Commerce isn't a bad thing, but exciting new technology to try to separate me from my money faster may be a cool thing for Google, but not for me--the consumer.
by abruzzi 15y ago
Commerce isn't a bad thing, but exciting new technology to try to separate me from my money faster may be a cool thing for Google, but not for me--the consumer. Maybe I'm weird, but I already know what I want to buy, I don't need technology to try (and usually fail) to generate some new consumption desire.
- skore 15y agoBe honest though - it's not like companies like to develop technology that has no commercial value. Whether or not it's used in that way is a different question, but if it's a big company developing something, you bet it went through twenty levels of market research to make sure there is a buck to make at the other end. It's still your choice what you do with it once the technology gets to you. I find it far more fruitful to look at what people do with the technology and how they end up screwing themselves with it. And by fruitful I mean frustrating.