7-6 Industry Future and Design
Table of Contents
Intro............................................................................................................................................................2
Deep Concepts...........................................................................................................................................2
Management vs. Innate Resilience........................................................................................................2
The false Promise of Technology.....................................................................................................3
Rewarding the Bad...........................................................................................................................4
Forced Obsolescence, aka The Support Rat Race............................................................................4
Drastic Change/Paradigm Shifts.......................................................................................................5
The Second Social Contract..............................................................................................................5
App Store vs. Sideloading.....................................................................................................................6
Wheat and Chaff....................................................................................................................................6
Quantifying............................................................................................................................................7
Open Broadcasting vs Narrowcasting...................................................................................................7
This industry is just a giant pile of Ponzi schemes................................................................................8
In-Bred Monopolies..............................................................................................................................8
Product/Service Design Observations........................................................................................................9
Smartphone Touchscreen Keyboards....................................................................................................9
Consequences......................................................................................................................................10
Industry Standards/Protocols...............................................................................................................10
All soldered together...........................................................................................................................10
Over-saturation....................................................................................................................................11
Autoattacking Behavior.......................................................................................................................11
Helper Overlays...................................................................................................................................11
China...................................................................................................................................................12
The Whale Model................................................................................................................................12
The Cloud: A Soviet's Dream...................................................................................................................12
How did this happen?..........................................................................................................................12
Purchase vs Rental...............................................................................................................................13
Dangling the SaaS Carrot....................................................................................................................13
Hypercentralized Data.........................................................................................................................14
Why It's Evil and Innately Insecure....................................................................................................15
Cloud-Sucking Anti-Services..............................................................................................................15
Cloud-Controlled Gizmos...................................................................................................................16
Dependency.........................................................................................................................................16
The Centralized Locksmith.................................................................................................................16
The art of mass surveillance and connected control............................................................................17
Control out of Fear, aka Cloud Stonewalling......................................................................................17
Captive Audience................................................................................................................................18
The Zero Trust Scandal.......................................................................................................................18
AI.............................................................................................................................................................19
Not if I can help it!!!...............................................................................................................................19
Products We Can Recommend Right Now..........................................................................................20
Experimental: Windows 10 LTSB LTSC............................................................................................20
Scripts..................................................................................................................................................21Browsers..............................................................................................................................................21
Anti-Cloud Tech..................................................................................................................................21
If ya cant beat em, join em..................................................................................................................21
Sureity.................................................................................................................................................21
En-Masse Photo Compression.............................................................................................................21
What to do with older PCs..................................................................................................................22
Android Inside Windows.....................................................................................................................22
Duck Duck Go.....................................................................................................................................22
Hope for the future...................................................................................................................................23
Combatting the DRM Scandal (this section is done)..........................................................................23
Decentralized Mobile Communication Technology............................................................................23
A few notes on "Without Their Permission" by Alexis Ohanian.........................................................24
SAILFISH OS.....................................................................................................................................24
Blocking..............................................................................................................................................24
Auto Industry.......................................................................................................................................25
Class actions against the industry........................................................................................................25
Decentralized Verification...................................................................................................................25