Can adding a little friction back to user interfaces save us?
Show notesWe talk about the currently-trendy concept of (design) friction and how it is necessary but not sufficient for right action on the Internet.
Links Facebook admits that it intentionally defrauded children by making it easy to buy in-game purchases The creator of the retweet button now thinks it was a bad idea (Mea culpa: We stated this article was written in Wired but it was in BuzzFeed) Alt-Meat Trounces Animal Meat’s Massive Inefficiencies The Launch: After two decades of research and development, WA 38 lands this fall. It could disrupt an entire industry.—It’s an apple. A short history of Gamergate A compendium of articles concerning how Gamergate changed the Internet Data arguing that Gamergate was more about harassment than ethics A growing list of former tech company workers who regret their design decisions The Center for Humane Tech’s podcast Your Undivided Attention Tim-Berners Lee on his disappointments and frustrations with what people did to the world wide web Things Chris has written in relation to this episode: Friction is the Friend of Serendipity Previous episodes: 2.03: Impervious Scale�The Roman Empire and Friendster Have Things to Say to You 6.08: People Do Reject Technologies, Part 2—Nuclear weapons, nuclear waste, and how to argue well with intractable disagreements. 7.01: Do We Really Need to Keep the Internet Around? Season 7’s charter—by way of a rollicking argument about Alan Jacobs’ The Year of Our Lord 1943 and Tolkien’s idea of eucatastrophe. Music“Stig of the Dump / Ogglet (Live)” - El Toppo (By the way, Stig of the Dump is a classic British children’s story, just in case you were wondering. Stephen looked it up after the show.) - “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho.
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