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There are several issues in today's computing.

If the information and communications technology (ICT) industry was purposefully following a harmful agenda, these would probably be their design principles:

• disregard for life
• disregard for the chips
• more is better
• assume limitless resources
• keep it controlled
• outsource the problem
• amplify ignorance
• obfuscate everything
• destroy communities
• achieve monopoly

While the industry is rarely discussed in this way, there are increasingly well-documented issues in the dominant computational cultural paradigm which all together help better explain how such a harmful agenda can emerge explicitly or implicitly.

Additional topics to explore:

• inaccessible: greenwashing, Californian ideology, ?otherness,pseudosimplicity
• incompatible: vendor lock-in, proprietary
• inefficient: bloat, maximalism, cryptocurrency,calculation factory, cornucopianism
• rigid: monoculture, siliconization
• failing: silver bullet, planned obsolescence, wishcycling,software rot
• extractivist: attention economy, capitalism, Big Tech, neoliberalism