Bookmark: "Life Without the Tech Giants"

2019-01-25

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Life Without the Tech Giants gizmodo.com

Addressing the widespread concern with the big tech giants taking too much control over people’s lives, Kashmir Hill enrolls in a self-experiment:

The common retort to these concerns is that you should “just stop using their services.” So I decided to try.

What follows is a series of blog posts in which he describes his efforts and insights from that endeavour.

I'm Sebastian, Sociologist and Interaction Designer. This journal is mostly about bringing together social science and design for inclusive, privacy-focused, and sustainable "human-first" digital strategies. I also tend to a "digital garden" with carefully curated resources.

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