„Wir brauchen ein nachhaltiges Internet. Wir alle teilen und nutzen das Internet, so wie wir alle auf diesem Planeten teilen und leben.“
Sustainable Web Manifesto: Manifest für ein nachhaltiges Internet, https://black-forever.de/manifest-nachhaltiges-internet | Original: https://www.sustainablewebmanifesto.com
Ich bin Web Consultant – mit Fokus auf Minimalismus und digitaler Nachhaltigkeit. Ich lebe und arbeite in Kempten im Allgäu.
Für Entwicklungsprojekte stehe ich nicht zur Verfügung.
Remember: Your website doesn’t need to look exactly the same on every browser and every device!
„The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.“
Jeff Hammerbacher, in: ‚This Tech Bubble Is Different‘ by Ashlee Vance (14.04.2011), https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-04-14/this-tech-bubble-is-different
„Momentan werden jedoch so viele Menschen und Geräte vernetzt, dass die globale Kommunikation bis 2025 voraussichtlich mehr CO2-Emissionen erzeugen wird als jedes Land – mit Ausnahme von China, Indien und den USA.“
Internet Health Report 2018, Mozilla (April 2018),
https://internethealthreport.org/2018/das-internet-verbraucht-mehr-strom-als/?lang=de
Social media apps and websites are designed to achieve ‚engagement goals‘: they aim to keep us clicking, scrolling and swiping, while showing us as many ads or pages as possible.
Tech firms are in the business of immersing us in a digital present that distracts us from pursuing goals of our own choosing, and against long-term thinking can hardly compete. Sean Parker, founding president of Facebook, had admitted that hijacking our attention was an intentional objective of the company. ‚The thought process was this‘, he said. ‚How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?‘
The phones in our pockets have become the new factory clocks, capturing time that was once our own and offering in exchange a continuous electronic now full of infotainment, advertising and fake news.
The distraction industry works by cleverly tapping into our ancient mammalian brains: our ear prick up at the ping of an arriving message, or our attention switches to a video suddenly flickering on the edge of the screen, generating a sense of anticipation that triggers our dopamine system into action.
Facebook is Pavlov, and we’re the dogs.
Roman Krznaric (2020): ‚The Good Ancestor. How to Think Long Termin a Short-Term World.‘