“The World-Wide Work”
summary
Claim: the Web is industrializing like the sewing machine, concentrating power and replacing workers. Evidence: a drop‑cap bug is fixed by swapping ::first‑letter for a wrapped span plus ::before/::after, negative margins and aria-hidden with an aria-labelledby label so it reads correctly in screen readers — and it then behaves consistently across Chrome Firefox and Safari. Examples of scale and harm: Amazon Rekognition, Google Project Maven/Project Dragonfly, Netflix’s AVA, Duplex calls, $9/day data trainers, and 20,000 Google walkouts.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:44Starlings
- 2:46Design Systems
- 3:28Design Patterns
- 5:19How to Adjust Design Patterns
- 7:01The WorldWide Work
- 8:55Power
- 10:48Robert Moses
- 17:40Tim BernersLee
- 19:30The Real World of Technology
- 22:05The Sewing Machine
- 24:20The WorldWide Web
- 25:10Jades Story
- 28:06Brendas Story
- 30:13Exploitation
- 32:09Personalization
- 34:05Design jobs
- 35:47Ethical and moral lapses
- 36:29Hope
- 40:17Google
