David Ascher, then Mozilla Foundation VP of product, examines competing futures for the Internet of Things — corporate visions versus surveillance and vendor lock-in from consolidation. He traces how the early internet’s idealistic, collaborative values gave way to centralization, and describes a Mozilla design workshop in India where a student prototyped a device connecting her to her mother’s home rituals, arguing for broader participation in shaping connected technology.
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