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May 7, 2019 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
Eben Moglen on persuasive design:
"It's very important to recognize that once behavior collection is what the network really does, then what it attempts to maximize is behavior. This lies beneath the increasingly important intellectual discipline known as persuasive design"
Eben Moglen on news feeds and constant notification:
"The stream of what comes to you [on the net] drowns the inner dialogue, removes interiority, changes your understanding of time. 'Too long didn't read'. How long is too long?"
Technology has harmed the ability to think. These harms hide in the dark. In his keynote, Professor Moglen illuminates them for us.
WATCH: "Why Freedom of Thought Requires Attention" pscp.tv/re_publica/1Zk…
"Gram for gram, that smart phone is denser with sensing than the spy satellite in orbit, and it's all aimed at you...We don't need a thing in orbit to take a picture of a golf ball on the ground. Everybody has a little camera, and they take a picture," says Eben Moglen.