Let’s have a look at a very interesting article that shows how the choices we have in our daily life are limited and controlled. It’s written by a Design Ethicist at Google:
In a nutshell, the article explains how our choices are constrained by poor design or clever manipulation techniques that aim to hide those options that are not favorable to certain commercial interests. Being aware that this happens is important knowledge. A quick fix is to always dig deeper and try to look beyond “what’s on the menu”.
Update: in 2017 I wrote a more detailed article^ on this same subject.
The only problem with this article is that the link is broken. After a bit of googling I’ve found this link that works. https://medium.com/swlh/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds-from-a-magician-and-google-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3#.gp2qz4e50
It’s a great read!
When I’ll have more time, I will comment some more 🙂 (as I still have to do with some other articles on your blog.
Peace and love my brother!
Managed to fix it in the meantime :D, just a bit after seeing your comment. Thank you for the correction!