It’s interesting that Rogers writes about the positive bias in innovation research. The research is premised on innovation being a good thing. You see this in the classic categories - ‘early adopters’, ‘laggards’. The former are brave, curious, savvy, the latter stubborn, etc. 1/n
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Would anyone rather go back to life even just 20 years ago? We've forgotten how it was.
I'm in currently hospital; I'd be completely lost without my phone.
Google is SO much worse than five years ago.
So many apps are getting worse. I HAVE to use an app when parking in Brighton - there’s no option for real money. Every time I use it now it asks whether I need to insure my car WHILE IT’S PARKED. Every time.
For my perfectly computer literate parents in their mid 80s (both with PhDs), the endless pop ups and general enshittification are overwhelming.
It feels correct that panics are remembered by their most extreme downside predictions rather than the more moderate worries that are often proven out. But extreme upside predictions are quietly swept under the rug at a later date.
We’ve lost this ‘vector’ component of the word. Not all innovation is ‘good’