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Dystopia
Anti-teenager “pink lights to show up acne”
The Convention on Modern Liberty
On ‘Design and Behaviour’ this week: Do you own your stuff? And a strange council-run ‘Virtual World for young people’
Mosquito controversy goes high-profile
Learned down the gambling house
A vein attempt?
BBC: Surveillance drones in Merseyside
Reversing the emphasis of a control environment
Review: Made to Break by Giles Slade
‘Anti-Homeless’ benches in Tokyo
Review: We Know What You Want by Martin Howard
‘Secret alarm becomes dance track’
Countercontrol: blind pilots
Designed to control rather than enable
Locking users in by making it difficult to leave
Uninnovate – engineering products to do less
Transcranial magnetic stimulation
Some links: miscellaneous, pertinent to architectures of control
Planned addiction as a method of control: a parasitic lock-in business model
Spiked: When did ‘hanging around’ become a social problem?
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