Save and Punish

The snazzy gadgets of big tech companies constantly document our movements, what we say, write and think. Everywhere we install microphones, cameras and sensors that observe us 24/7 – penitentiary style. In a sense, every time we hit save, every time we are biometrically identified, we are put under arrest. Technology puts us into a prison that does not require walls, with Siri, Alexa and Cortana as history’s friendliest wardens. Adrian lobe, on the basis of many examples from our technologized everyday life, draws the portrait of the real dystopia that is society in data prison.