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Formatization Unleashed
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Author(s): Ulrich Gehmann (University of Karlsruhe (KIT), Germany), Marco Zampella (University of Arts and Design, Germany)and Matthias Wölfel (University Furtwangen, Germany)
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 15
Source title:
Analyzing Art, Culture, and Design in the Digital Age
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Gianluca Mura (Politecnico di Milano University, Italy)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8679-3.ch017
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Abstract
We propose the thesis that the evolution of information technology, which promises nearly unlimited possibilities, is actually not leading to an increase of individual freedom, but to the very opposite. Since a seemingly increase in individual user-freedom is accompanied by a de facto-increase in preformatted devices for achieving it, and hence, does lead to the actual decrease of this very freedom. All in all, the evolutionary process of information technology described in the following has led to an increasing number of abstraction layers the hierarchy of which can be interpreted as a pyramid of formats. The top of this pyramid is a format in itself that builds upon formats of lower layers. As the final consequence we as the users of these technologies are losing our actual degrees of freedom, with every layer introduced.
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