Anne Galloway:

I was thinking about some of those things last week when a colleague asked me to give a guest lecture in his undergrad ubiquitous computing media design course, and so I found myself putting together a few slides under the title 5 Things About Ubiquitous Computing That Make Me Nervous. This was my list: […]

5. Convenience & efficiency imperatives Or, the cultural belief that people would be better off if there were more technologies to make daily life more convenient, and common tasks more efficient.

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I’m a bit conflicted about some things on that list, but it’s a good reminder that a lot of the assumptions we make should every so often be looked at again. It’s quite surprising, however, how well Evgeny Morozov’s latest book seems to fit into the current zeitgeist.