Australian Dictionary Chooses 'Enshittification' As The Word Of The Year
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"We’re all living through the enshittocene" said tech critic Cory Doctorow, "in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit."
Remember when Facebook was just a useful website that helped you stay in touch with your friends? And Google did more than serve you half a page of ads? And Twitter ― well, let’s not go there.
There’s a word for this decline: enshittification.
The term, made famous by the tech critic Cory Doctorow in 2023, was just selected by Macquarie Dictionary ― Australia’s oldest! ― as its 2024 word of the year.
Here’s how they defined it:
noun Colloquial: the gradual deterioration of a service or product brought about by a reduction in the quality of service provided, especially of an online platform, and as a consequence of profit-seeking.
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