{"id":881,"date":"2017-04-26T11:49:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T09:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/?p=881"},"modified":"2017-04-26T11:49:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T09:49:42","slug":"drivelware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/2017\/04\/26\/drivelware\/","title":{"rendered":"DrivelWare \u00a9\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"

[mass noun]<\/em> combination of computer hardware, software and telecommunications equipment that allow individuals to disseminate vacuous guff to a wide audience.<\/p>\n

The ultimate DrivelWare\u00a9\u2122 is Twitter. As it’s name and logo clearly indicate, it allows hundreds of millions to parrot sparrows by creating digital noise. It is a fact that sparrows’ tweets have important Darwinian functions: to congregate, warn of danger and attract mates for reproduction. In contrast, human tweets fulfill none of these functions; there is no congregation or dangers in cyberspace and reproduction requires a physical encounter. Twitter has become the de facto<\/em> leader in DrivelWare\u00a9\u2122 due to its limit to 140 characters, which curtails – wisely – the amount of information that can be transmitted. In practice this limit is not problematic as the average tweet length is 28 symbols, a good proxy for the authors’ IQ.<\/p>\n

The most pervasive DrivelWare\u00a9\u2122 is Facebook, where the gerbil-like publish self-important, whimsical information created by random synapse firings: location, bowel movements, olfactory sensations and so forth. The behaviour is rewarded with ‘likes’ from correspondents, sustaining a Pavlovian feedback mechanism that encourages cyclic eructations.<\/p>\n

Finally, the epitomy of DrivelWare\u00a9\u2122 is SnapChat, where the mindless content is automatically deleted a few seconds after it is created, thus reinforcing the correlation between the quality and the lifetime of the message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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