Cory Doctorow

The category that this falls into, it's broadly called bossware.

And there's a whole lot of different versions of it.

Like if your firm buys Office 365, Microsoft will offer your boss

The ability to stack rank divisions within your firm by like how often they move the mouse and how many typos they make and how many words they type.

And then this is amazing.

They will tell you how you perform against similar firms in your sector, which is like the most amazing thing I can imagine.

That Microsoft is finding customers for a sales pitch that says, we will show you sensitive internal information about your competitors.

And apparently none of those people are like, wait, doesn't that mean you're going to show my competitors something?

sensitive commercial information about me.

So you have this on the kind of broad strokes level.

But I have this notion I call the shitty technology adoption curve.

If you've got a really terrible idea that involves technology that's incredibly harmful to the people it's imposed on, you can't start with me.

I'm a mouthy, white, middle-class guy with a megaphone.

And when I get angry, other people find out about it.

You have to find people without social power.

And

And you grind down the rough edges on their bodies.

You start with prisoners.

You start with people in mental asylums.

You start with refugees.