Comments by "Eli Nope" (@elinope4745) on "An Internet Without Screens Might Look Like This | Tom Uglow | TED Talks" video.

  1. i am already afraid of my phone. smart phones were supposed to be liberating, but then governments and private companies started using my phone to spy on me. what used to be a tool to help me with directions became a tool to track everywhere i went. they told me "why should you mind? what do you have to fear if you have nothing to hide?" they said this while hiding, and they only said it after they tried to imprison the man who told me. no, i don't want more technology, no i don't want a stick that knows my mood, or a light that can read my mind. i don't want a computer that can predict my thoughts, i don't want something that can be programmed by someone else as a means to curtail my liberty, to strip me of my autonomy, to take away any power i once had over my own decisions over my own life. i could do without those things. do you know why i like books more than smart phones? books don't spy on me. figure out a way to make technology and computers in a manner that cannot be taken over by a bad actor and turned against me. that is what i want, something that i can depend on not to be used by someone else to control my decisions.
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