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La fine preannunciata delle piattaforme

Published 31/01/2023 by Luca Conti

Cory Doctorow lo chiama ehshittification. Come lo tradurresti in Italiano? Smerdamento?

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

Cory Doctorow

Il tema è la morte delle piattaforme per autosputtanamento. Non mi viene un altro termine.

Doctorow non ha tutti i torti, ma non mi sembra siamo ancora arrivati alla fase finale.

Non direi neanche che è cominciato il declino. Semmai si è arrestata o si è stabilizzata la crescita, cosa ben diversa.

Il tempo dirà se il picco è vicino e se Big Tech lotterà con unghie e denti per evitare la perdita di redditività e di potere.… Continua a leggere

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Inquinamento digitale, è ora di fare qualcosa

Published 12/03/2019 by Luca Conti

For all the good the internet has produced, we are now grappling with effects of digital pollution that have become so potentially large that they implicate our collective well-being. We have moved beyond the point at which our anxieties about online services stem from individuals seeking to do harm—committing crimes, stashing child pornography, recruiting terrorists. We are now face-to-face with a system that is embedded in every structure of our lives and institutions, and that is itself shaping our society in ways that deeply impact our basic values. 

We are right to be concerned. Increased anxiety and fear, polarization, fragmentation of a shared context, and loss of trust are some of the most apparent impacts of digital pollution. Potential degradation of intellectual and emotional capacities, such as critical thinking, personal authority, and emotional well-being, are harder to detect. We don’t fully understand the cause and effect of digital toxins. The

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