There are several issues in today's computing.
If the information and communications technology (ICT) industry was purposefully following a harmful agenda, these would probably be their design principles:
- disregard for life
- disregard for the chips
- more is better
- assume limitless resources
- keep it controlled
- outsource the problem
- amplify ignorance
- obfuscate everything
- destroy communities
- achieve monopoly
While the industry is rarely discussed in this way, there are increasingly well-documented issues in the dominant computational cultural paradigm which all together help better explain how such a harmful agenda can emerge explicitly or implicitly.
Additional topics to explore:
- inaccessible: greenwashing, Californian ideology, ?otherness, pseudosimplicity
- incompatible: vendor lock-in, proprietary
- inefficient: bloat, maximalism, cryptocurrency, calculation factory, cornucopianism
- rigid: monoculture, siliconization
- failing: silver bullet, ?planned obsolescence, wishcycling, software rot
- extractivist: attention economy, capitalism, Big Tech, neoliberalism