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The Tyranny of Convenience
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Yet the cultural dominance of the iPhone — and the transformation of the open internet into “walled gardens” and apps focused on simplifying the user experience — has taken the “triumph of seamless usability” to a new level. This “tyranny of convenience,” to borrow Tim Wu’s phrase , should sensitize us to what may be lost when democratization proc
... See morefrom Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents by Rogers Brubaker
MK and added
- “It’s convenience, and the way convenience is currently created by tech companies and accepted by most of us,” Horgan argued, “that is key to why we’ve ended up living in a world we all chose, but that nobody seems to want.”
from The Paradox of Control by theconvivialsociety.substack.com
Alex Wittenberg added
- Up to a point, swapping autonomy for ease is a pretty good trade: who wants to run the math on their accounting books or call the restaurant to place a delivery order? But if taken too far, convenience becomes a Trojan Horse. We cede too much control and become dependent on something we can no longer steer. Platforms that promised to bring convenie... See more
from Frank Chimero · The Web’s Grain by Frank Chimero
Sixian and added
- But for me, for now, the friction is what I’m looking for. I am grateful — genuinely — for what Google and Apple and others did to make digital life easy over the past two decades. But too much ease carries a cost. I was lulled into the belief that I didn’t have to make decisions. Now my digital life is a series of monuments to the cost of combinin... See more
from archive.ph
Agalia Tan added
convenience has created a culture of passivity. Where’s the intention behind things?
Convenience, in other words, makes things easy, but without regard to whether easiness is truly what’s most valuable in any given context.
from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
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