olia lialina on Sun, 18 Jan 2015 21:22:31 +0100 (CET)


[Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: <nettime> Rich User Experience, UX and Desktopization of War


On 18.01.2015 18:03, Florian Cramer wrote:

    On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 11:27 PM, olia lialina <olia@profolia.org> wrote:

      and the morning after UX, when people (formerly known as users)
      beiing fooled into invisible computing paradigm, find out that
      computers are there but the only think they can do with them is to
      take out the battery

    Even that is overly optimistic. Nowadays, you can't even remove (or
    swap) the battery of most mobile devices.
    -F

Writing this paragraph I had in mind a very vivid picture from 30C3: J. Appelbaum theatrically taking battery out of his phone to switch it off. But true! the sentense should read: "but the only thing they can do with them is to buy a new one".
There are more examples in the text.
thank you
olia


#  distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission
#  <nettime>  is a moderated mailing list for net criticism,
#  collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets
#  more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l
#  archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org