Luddite

Until recently, platforms like Tinder and Uber couldn't exist. They need the intimate data that only mobile devices can provide, which they use to mediate human relationships. They never own anything. In some ways, this simplifies their task, because owning things is hard, but human activities are complicated, making them illegible to computers. As tech companies become more powerful and push deeper into our lives, here's a post about that tension and its consequences.