> I've been feeling lately that as computers have become more advanced and software has become more inscrutable, our relationship with our computers has changed

> I've been feeling lately that as computers have become more advanced and software has become more inscrutable, our relationship with our computers has changed, for the worse. Very much so. Technology stopped being about empowerment some time ago - it's been subverted into a tool for erecting virtual tollbooths. > This essay hit home for me: https://explaining.software/archive/transparent-like-frosted https://explaining.software/archive/transparent-like-frosted... Thanks for that - I just read it. This made me grin: > "By the mid-1990s," Turkle says, "when people said that something was transparent, they meant that they could immediately make it work, not that they knew how it worked." ... and by the late 1990s people meant they could see its PCB through the case!