Why Every Family Needs a Code Word (wsj.com) Posted in GD for wide applicability, namely everyone.

[usonian]

16. They'd have fired me quickly.

I always argued that technology is for personal freedom and always will.
My most interesting job was at U.C. Berkeley, where I supported computing for the professors, staff and grad students.

I've got more ad-blockers installed than grains of sand in the Ganges River.

I go by what Kevin Kelley said in the earliest version of "What Technology Wants" (post, before he wrote a book by that name)

Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants:
Increasing efficiency
Increasing opportunity
Increasing emergence
Increasing complexity
Increasing diversity
Increasing specialization
Increasing ubiquity
Increasing freedom
Increasing mutualism
Increasing beauty
Increasing sentience
Increasing structure
Increasing evolvability

No mention of ad revenue.