Apple's Vision Pro Portends a Dark Future

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/apples-vision-pro-portends-dark-future

by thefaux • 2 years ago

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JohnFen• 2 years ago

I'm not commenting on the AVP here.

We mostly take it for granted that digital technology comes with serious social and developmental drawbacks, even if these may not justify outright panic. As a result, most of us now look on our devices and the industry that makes them with a kind of dependent contempt.

This articulates a hazy feeling I've had for a few years now. I think it hits the nail on the head.

It's fascinating how few people (particularly, but not only, tech laypeople) get excited about shiny new tech anymore. I think that quote explains why extremely well. Tech has gone from being a liberator or bringer of freedom to being an oppressor that we feel forced to dance with.

I think that's a situation that cannot persist, and if our industry doesn't take this problem seriously, there will be a comeuppance that will be hard to recover from.

Our industry needs to go back to building things that benefit people without keeping them firmly under a thumb. But I'm not sure that we will.

Apple's Vision Pro Portends a Dark Future

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