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All posts filed under “Prophecy”

27 July, 2006

Nice attitude

Someone from the UK just found this site by searching for “device to stop young people congregating” using a mobile phone provider’s search engine.

Now, I know, I know, there may be an important backstory behind that person’s search. Some people apparently really do have problems with kids intimidating them (e.g. see these comments on the Mosquito) and believe that a technological solution is the only answer. Read More

Filed under: 1984, Architecture & urbanism, Bad design, Britain, Cargo cult, Civil rights, Consumer rights, Control, Creeping erosion of norms, Crime, Deleuze, Design, Design engineering, Design philosophy, Design with Intent, Designed to be unpleasant, Designed to injure, Designers, Discrimination, Discriminatory Architecture, Distasteful corollary, Do artifacts have politics?, Dystopia, Embedding code, Engineering, Erosion of liberty, Exclusion, External Control, Foucault, Future, Hidden persuaders, Indoctrination, Intrusive technology, Killjoy technology, Liberty, Mosquito, Nonsense, Norms, Observation, Oppression, Orwellian, Panopticon, Philosophy of control, Political design, Product design, Propaganda, Prophecy, Punishment, Restriction, Sneaky, Social engineering, Sound weapons, Spatial, Specious arguments, Surveillance, Techniques of persuasion, Technology, Technology policy, Technology underclass, Teenagers, Underclass, Urban, User experience, User Psychology, Worldwide
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