Unfinished revolution. How we became experimental rabbits of the Silicon Valley
Progress cannot be an excuse for laziness and greed. Because if we allow it, the future of technology will be one big, endless beta.
The contract was terminated. This unwritten pact between the creator and the consumer, assuming that at a full price we get a ready, safe and working product, is forgetting. In its place came a new, disturbing rule: Pay now, and you will get a fully functional product … maybe next year. If at all.
We have become the focal point of the blessed Silicon Valley experiment – not as users, but as experimental rabbits.
We are an unpaid, last stage of quality control, an experimental training ground for the revolution that reaches us in pieces.
Exhibit A: When your privacy becomes a beta function
Nothing exposed this phenomenon as brutally as the recent scandal with Microsoft’s “Recall” function. Announced as a jewel in the crown of the new generation of Copilot+ PC computers, it was to be our photographic memory, recording everything we do on the screen. However, before the first laptops hit the market, security experts raised the alarm, and their discoveries were chilling blood.
