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Friction-Free’ Economy Rhetoric Holds a Time Bomb <ref>Friction-Free’ Economy Rhetoric Holds a Time Bomb (1996-01-11 LA Times https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-01-11-fi-23355-story.html</ref>
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An article in 1996 titled ''Friction-Free Economy Rhetoric Holds a Time Bomb'' described the results to be expected from ''friction-free'' movement of many. The introduction of this in the 2020's has proven that the warning was both true and ignored.<ref>Gary Chapman ''Friction-Free Economy Rhetoric Holds a Time Bomb'' (1996-01-11 LA Times https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-01-11-fi-23355-story.html</ref>
  
 
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[[Category: Glossary]]
 
[[Category: Glossary]]

Revision as of 08:32, 10 July 2022

Full Title or Meme

Freedom from Friction is often the goal of designers of digital systems. Carried to extremes it is always a very bad idea.

Context

History

  • Revolutions against the oppressive regimes in French of th 1890's
  • In the 1920's freedom of
  • In the 1960's freedom of expression was carried to extremes in a backlash against societal ills like discrimination.
  • In the 1990's freedom from regulation

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An article in 1996 titled Friction-Free Economy Rhetoric Holds a Time Bomb described the results to be expected from friction-free movement of many. The introduction of this in the 2020's has proven that the warning was both true and ignored.[1]

References

  1. Gary Chapman Friction-Free Economy Rhetoric Holds a Time Bomb (1996-01-11 LA Times https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-01-11-fi-23355-story.html