Chris Berube

He says in shitification, it is not exclusive to being online, you know, on Facebook, on Google, wherever.

It can also affect things in the physical, tactile world.

Such as all of our smart devices.

So how does that work?

Well, Corey says this same principle applies to basically all of our smart devices, right?

Including our cars, our smart fridges, our tractors, stuff that just wasn't previously digital.

Let's just talk about how many of our devices today rely on computers and rely on the Internet.

So how many smart devices would you estimate you have in your home right now?

Twenty?

Possibly?

That's pretty average, if that's right.

So according to this survey I found from 2023, the average American household has about 21 connected devices.

So that means devices that are connected to the Internet.

Wow.

Oh, 100 percent.

And the thing with all of these smart devices is that it makes it a lot easier for a company that makes this device to lock you in.

Right.

So the first step into gentrification, it's locking you in because if something is a smart device, the manufacturer has quite a bit of leeway.

Let's go back to tractors where we started this whole episode.

Cory Doctorow says they are a prime example of this.