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I agree that the tech backlash has a lot to do with the fact that Silicon Valley has pretty much given up on giving us cool things - and has trained us to assume that tech products that *seem* cool are probably secretly evil. I wrote about this last year:

little-flying-robots.ghost.ioI Just Want a Cute Robot Lamp That Isn't EvilApple's engineers have figured out how to design a robot lamp so adorable that everyone I've shown the video to says they'd die for it. By studying how to translate human expression into the movement...

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The key to all this, in my mind , is the principle that if you are getting it for free, it’s means you are the product rather than the consumer. (Of course, now enshitification means you’re paying for it, and are still the product.)

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