The Web has become anti-human
Sir Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t mince his words:
“We demonstrated that the Web had failed instead of served humanity, as it was supposed to have done, and failed in many places,” he told me. The increasing centralization of the Web, he says, has “ended up producing—with no deliberate action of the people who designed the platform—a large-scale emergent phenomenon which is anti-human.”
Note to self: never try to analyse the physics of PAW Patrol.
(But where does the water for Marshall’s backpack water jets come from?)
Now my account is all fixed, I’m really enjoying micro.blog again. Thanks, @manton.
Psychologists have looked into why “phubbing” is so harmful to our social lives - no big surprises, but it confirms what you might guess. It’s the psychological equivalent of refusing to sit at a lunch table with a child.
Why the heck has Star Wars ended up with such a toxic fandom?
This piece on making retail businesses into experience centres is actually quite depressing. I was writing about this nearly 20 years ago for Estates Gazette, and people are still struggling with it.
