Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps | Hacker News
Geoffrey Littnews.ycombinator.com
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps | Hacker News
While early tech leaders hoped to liberate humanity from hierarchical governments, their products instead multiplied the available channels for exerting control.
Kernel | take back the future! the progressive case for techno-optimism
The Hacker sees through the veil of man-made worlds and glimpses a Reality Operating System (RealityOS) pulsating with possibilities to tinker with. The Hacker believes that every object, every social structure, every system contains a core innovation that has been dialled down, dressed up and packaged for an all-too-human agenda.
Ian Cheng • Emissary's Guide To Worlding
If Luddism is simply the preference for agency over structures designed and coded by others, we’re going to need a bigger Ludd.
stealing • Retrofuturism
These projects, Victor says, are just “nibbles around the edges” of his larger obsession: how the media in which we choose to represent our ideas shape (and too often, limit) what ideas we can have. “We have these things called computers, and we’re basically just using them as really fast paper emulators,” he says. “With the invention of the printi... See more
medium.com • The Utopian UI Architect
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay—a malleable material that users could reshape at will. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. When your tools don’t work the way you need them to, you submit feedback and hope for the best. You’re forced to adapt your workflow to fit your software, when it ... See more