ephemera

aktorpoet.com/ephemera (microblog)

Strongly dislike working on the Winbook model.  I had a good system with the Chromebooks, which are very secure, and can be configured for decent privacy, but then had to make the shift (which actually involved a time of saving up during a low-revenue stretch) to the fenestrated models for extrinsic reasons. 

It's no exaggeration to call it a panopticon; in default configurations, any marketer with sufficient interest could determine the average person's recent reading, precise location, long-range work, and social network. And that's before even thinking about the black-hat hacking.

Future ages will likely understand that we made these machines in order for humans to do what they do more effectively.  They might be at a loss, though, wondering why we thought that was necessarily a good thing.