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Well, I hope obviously, I think the coercion tech exerts on people is a good thing. I make that argument w.r.t. bureaucracy all the time. And what is bureaucracy if not technology. What's the difference between, say, a lab beaker and a lab method? I argue not much, the beaker is simply a very formal [sub]workflow and the method is informal. I guess the trick is when (not if) methods/processes are prematurely (and preemptively) fossilized into technlogy, behaviors into components.

Coercing a person to travel to a store to keep their phone working seems like we've prematurely locked-in processes into the object of the "phone". The process[es] that are locked-in have something to do with money and infrastructure we use for individuals to engage with society. Money doesn't seem like the best way to do that, to me ... it feels a bit like a poll tax ... "pay to play" is resoundingly denigrated amongst the younger people I know.

On 6/24/22 11:24, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> I remember being at the T-Mobile out on Cerrillos road and someone came in to pay $10 to keep their phone running.    I found that a striking example of the degree of control that technology can exert on people.  Maybe for the good?

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