Abstract
YAFR (Yet another futile rant) presents the smartphone: an unstoppable piece of technology generated from a perfect storm of commercial, technological, social and psychological factors. We begin by misquoting Steve Jobs and by being unfairly rude about the HCI community. We then consider the smartphone's ability to kill off competing technology and to undermine collectivism. We argue that its role as a Lacanian stain, an exploitative tool, and as a means of concentrating power into the hands of the few, make it a technology that will rival the personal automobile in its effect on modern society.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
Pages | 501-511 |
Number of pages | 11 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781450340823 |
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Publication status | Published - 7 May 2016 |