On: The rise of the camera launched a fight to protect...

[thaumasiotes]

> the way our societies in the west are structured are making it increasingly difficult to participate in the world without plugging yourself into the surveillance borg. Examples abound even in this thread -

> needing to ask concierge to call you a Lyft

Considering this was also necessary before smartphones existed, I'm not sure why it's supposed to be a problem now.

[ghaff → thaumasiotes]

Because there often isn't a concierge any longer and there may not be a reliable local taxi company. Without disagreeing that you can work around the lack of a smartphone, it's increasingly difficult in a lot of circumstances.