Technology has grown from some devices and platforms we use to an entire environment in which we function

What we really needed this decade was to learn code as a liberal art – not so much as software engineers, but as human beings living in a new sort of environment. It’s an environment that remembers and records everything we have done online, every data point we leave in our wake, in order to adapt itself to our individual predilections – all in order to generate whatever responses or behaviors the platforms want from us. The digital media environment uses what it knows about each of our pasts to direct each one of our futures.

— Read on www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/29/decade-technology-privacy-tech-backlash