On 01/15/2017 09:31 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:
A work in progress:
A Millenials' Digital Bill Of Rights
We hold these truths to be self evident, that all First World Middle Class tweens, teens and 20-somethings are created superior, and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable digital rights including:
To have their personal needs anticipated and met without effort on their part.
To do exactly as they please at all times with no chance of destructive consequences.
To maintain high bandwidth 24/7 ominplexed network participation with full privacy and security.
To by protected from abuse of State and Corporate power by State and Corporate actors.
Our up and coming Consumers did not choose these self- and mutually contradictory demands themselves; they have been indoctrinated by a seamless lifelong sales campaign, a uniform front of instant gratification product offerings and attractively packaged Experiences. No "conspiracy" was required to implement this program; it arose naturally from commercial competition. But this spontaneously self-organized Standard has been recognized, formalized, and is now consciously pursued by every significant vendor in the consumer electronics, software and network services sphere. The market has spoken and the UX future is now.
A monitored life for every consumer, in the cybernetic sense of the word monitored, has now become a conscious and calculated goal: An egocasting bubble for every consumer, unbreakable walls of contempt and alienation between every pseudo-tribe, a navigation funnel for every human need, and a grand illusion of personal autonomy for every captive consumer. All consumers shall be sold both aspirations and the fulfillment of those aspirations in an eternally self adjusting feedback cycle of surveillance and adaptive stimulation.
Users? Please. General purpose programmable computers in private hands create problems, not Solutions. Laughable wannabe-elitist Lusers are already being phased out of society, and good riddance. We will of course need a /few/ thoroughly vetted and deeply dependent grunt workers to design and program devices to meet sales and marketing objectives. There will also be deviant technophiliac rats in the walls of the global village, but exterminators make money you kno w.
"And our children will live ... to see that perfect world in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality -- one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused." -Arthur Jensen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxiT30N6ti4 Text Available at American Rhetoric: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechnetwork4.html