{"id":8886,"date":"2019-09-30T15:40:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T14:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/madrid\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8886"},"modified":"2020-09-07T16:34:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T15:34:56","slug":"autonomy","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/spain\/es-es\/noticias\/2019\/sep\/autonomy","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s not enough &#8216;me&#8217; in autonomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lazyblock-two-column-text-quote-image-ffWdM wp-block-lazyblock-two-column-text-quote-image\"><section class=\"fullwidth fullwidth--overflow \" data-aos=\"fade-up\">\r\n  <div class=\"container container--spaced-lg\">\r\n    \r\n    <div class=\"row\">\r\n      \r\n      <div class=\"col-md-6\">\r\n                \r\n                <blockquote class=\"blockquote blockquote--md-right\">\r\n          Autonomy. It sounds like a very good thing. And it is.                  <\/blockquote>\r\n                \r\n  \t\t\t      <\/div>\r\n      \r\n      <div class=\"col-md-6\">\r\n    \t\t<p>It means having an internal locus of control, self-determination and self-sufficiency. But it is a word that is in danger of being hijacked, of having its positive connotations put to less than positive ends.<br \/><br \/>I am talking about the world of &#8220;autonomous&#8221; technology. To some extent, the autonomous revolution is still a way off \u2013 it is probably five to 10 years before autonomous driving becomes prevalent, for instance. But the vision of autonomous driving is emblematic of the semantic trick that is being played on us. Because driverless cars do not give us autonomy. They make us dependent. Like children being ferried around. Only with big tech as our parents.<\/p>  \t\t<\/div>\r\n  \t\t\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    \r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/section><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"lazyblock-image-full-width-1L7Wi3 wp-block-lazyblock-image-full-width\"><section class=\"fullwidth fullwidth--img\">\n  \n  <img data-src=\"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/09\/Daimler-driverless-car-e1515703361137-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"lazyload img-fluid\" \/>\n  \n<\/section><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"lazyblock-text-full-width-221SIR wp-block-lazyblock-text-full-width\"><section class=\"fullwidth text-center\" data-aos=\"fade-up\">\n  <div class=\"container\">\n    \n    \n    <h4>Now, does this matter? I don&#8217;t think it does in any individual case, but I am more ambivalent about the cumulative effect.\u00a0<\/h4>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"lazyblock-two-column-side-by-side-text-inline-image-button-1NYMd9 wp-block-lazyblock-two-column-side-by-side-text-inline-image-button\"><section class=\"fullwidth fullwidth--overflow\" data-aos=\"fade-up\">\n  <div class=\"container container--spaced-lg\">\n\n    <div class=\"row\">\n            <div class=\"col-md-6\">\n\n        <div class=\"text-image-item\">\n        \n                    \n          <div class=\"content\">\n                        \n            <div class=\"p\">\n              <p>Take satnav, for instance. To what extent are we letting the way-finding part of our brain get lazy by never reading a map or planning a journey? And it&#8217;s not just in cars. I increasingly use GPS to navigate by foot. Shortcuts breed shortcuts. There&#8217;s something contagious about mental laziness.\u00a0<br \/><br \/>And, like many contagious things, it&#8217;s also prolific. We are faced with a growing multitude of lazy options, all of which are designed to carry out tasks our brains used to perform.<\/p>            <\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n\n        <\/div>        \n      <\/div>\n            <div class=\"col-md-6\">\n\n        <div class=\"text-image-item\">\n        \n                    \n          <div class=\"content\">\n                        \n            <div class=\"p\">\n              <p>When you step back, it&#8217;s surprising how much of our daily intellectual effort has already been outsourced to new tech platforms, from spellcheck to autocorrect, from the memory in our phones to Google translate and search. What once taxed our brains \u2013 language, spelling, remembering things \u2013 increasingly requires no exertion. Voice activation adds to the mental delegation; Alexa means we no longer need to tune in to a radio station, tell the time or know the date.<\/p>            <\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n\n        <\/div>        \n      <\/div>\n      \n    <\/div>\n\n  <\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"lazyblock-two-column-text-quote-image-28ClNq wp-block-lazyblock-two-column-text-quote-image\"><section class=\"fullwidth fullwidth--overflow \" data-aos=\"fade-up\">\r\n  <div class=\"container container--spaced-lg\">\r\n    \r\n    <div class=\"row\">\r\n      \r\n      <div class=\"col-md-6\">\r\n                \r\n                <blockquote class=\"blockquote blockquote--md-right\">\r\n          These little removals of mental responsibility, masquerading craftily as increased autonomy, could potentially diminish us over time in the way they displace mental resourcefulness.                  <\/blockquote>\r\n                \r\n  \t\t\t  \t\t\t<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-1by1 img-inline img-offset-left-md\">\r\n          <picture class=\"embed-responsive-item\">\r\n            <source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/09\/DowntonAbbey-clean_S06-KA-fafe982-1.jpg 768w\">\r\n            <img data-src=\"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/09\/DowntonAbbey-clean_S06-KA-fafe982-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"lazyload img-fluid img-1-1\">\r\n          <\/picture>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n              <\/div>\r\n      \r\n      <div class=\"col-md-6\">\r\n    \t\t<div>This seems to me a threat that merits wider discussion than it currently receives, especially when you consider the broader social context of the other life tasks we now delegate to third parties. To use an odd phrase: we live in a world that&#8217;s in danger of becoming both physically and intellectually obesogenic.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>So much nowadays is done for us. Our food shopping is driven to us, our meals are prepared ready for us to eat and Amazon delivers just about everything else. We subcontract our memory to Google, Alexa and our phone. Cars will drive us; we won&#8217;t drive them. Without our knowledge, the media we consume is individually pre-edited to make it more palatable, personal and &#8220;relevant&#8221;. We are thus spared the responsibility of even deciding relevance for ourselves. If things continue this way, we run the risk of becoming digital equivalents to the slack-jawed, entitled layabouts caricatured in Downton Abbey. A class of people infantilised by a system that operates us more than we operate it.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><br \/>There is an established, tech-led narrative about the need for seamless, friction-free experiences. And these will remain the gold standard for customer-centric service design. But perhaps in the public domain, and in the broader purposes of the brands we work for, we should consider a counter-narrative. Of building structural (pleasant) inconvenience back into experience \u2013 getting people to use their brains as opposed to intellectual delegation, to use the stairs as opposed to the lift, to go off track so that, serendipitously, they can smell the roses they may not otherwise have noticed.<\/p>\n<p>Switched-on brands are, in my view, already on the case. They tend to be the ones who champion big, collective experiences and all the noise, messiness and spilt beer that goes with them. They tend to be the ones with the &#8220;chatty aisle&#8221;, an inefficient checkout where people with time on their hands can check out with garrulous inefficiency.\u00a0<\/p>  \t\t<\/div>\r\n  \t\t\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    \r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/section><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"lazyblock-quote-full-width-laQw9 wp-block-lazyblock-quote-full-width\">  <section class=\"fullwidth fullwidth--top-lg text-center\" data-aos=\"fade-up\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n\n      <blockquote class=\"blockquote\">\n        They tend to be the ones that confront with heat \u2013 rather than remove without friction \u2013 online hate towards their staff or communities. They tend to be the ones that manage to see what a hi-tech, individualised world can make invisible, such as the loneliness that may come with old age. They tend to be more human. The ones putting &#8220;me&#8221; back into autonomy and &#8220;us&#8221; back into autonomous.\n \n              <\/blockquote>\n\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"template":"","categories":[391],"class_list":["post-8886","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","category-noticias-de-la-agencia"],"acf":{"hero_image":{"ID":695,"id":695,"title":"Charles_7","filename":"Charles_7.jpg","filesize":67105,"url":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/Charles_7.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/spain\/news\/2019\/sep\/autonomy\/attachment\/charles_7","alt":"","author":"5","description":"","caption":"","name":"charles_7","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":8795,"date":"2020-06-25 17:28:34","modified":"2020-08-18 14:47:37","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/spain\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":720,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/Charles_7-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/Charles_7-300x113.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":113,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/Charles_7-768x288.jpg","medium_large-width":640,"medium_large-height":240,"large":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/Charles_7-1024x384.jpg","large-width":640,"large-height":240,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/Charles_7-1536x576.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":576,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/Charles_7.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":720,"Header":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/Charles_7-1920x720.jpg","Header-width":1920,"Header-height":720,"Wide":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/Charles_7.jpg","Wide-width":1920,"Wide-height":720,"Square":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/Charles_7-1152x720.jpg","Square-width":768,"Square-height":480,"Tall":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/Charles_7-768x720.jpg","Tall-width":307,"Tall-height":288,"Mobile":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/Charles_7-768x720.jpg","Mobile-width":768,"Mobile-height":720,"Facebook":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/Charles_7-1200x630.jpg","Facebook-width":1200,"Facebook-height":630,"Grid-Item-Square":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/Charles_7-768x720.jpg","Grid-Item-Square-width":768,"Grid-Item-Square-height":720,"Grid-Item-Wide":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/Charles_7-768x384.jpg","Grid-Item-Wide-width":768,"Grid-Item-Wide-height":384,"Grid-Item-Tall":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/Charles_7-384x720.jpg","Grid-Item-Tall-width":307,"Grid-Item-Tall-height":576}},"visible_on_home_page":[],"news_id":"391","author":{"ID":8889,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2020-07-02 12:04:34","post_date_gmt":"2020-07-02 11:04:34","post_content":"","post_title":"Charles Vallance","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"charles-vallance","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-08-20 18:12:39","post_modified_gmt":"2020-08-20 17:12:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/madrid\/?post_type=people&#038;p=8889","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},"meta-description":"It's surprising how much of our daily intellectual effort has already been outsourced.","og-image":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/Charles_7.jpg","twitter-site":"","twitter-card":"","twitter-image-alt":"","related_content_title":"YOU MAY ALSO LIKE","relateditems":[{"relateditem":{"ID":8660,"post_author":"5","post_date":"2019-09-04 14:24:39","post_date_gmt":"2019-09-04 13:24:39","post_content":"<!-- wp:lazyblock\/video {\"video-id\":\"357765945\",\"blockId\":\"Z20ajCa\",\"blockUniqueClass\":\"lazyblock-video-Z20ajCa\"} \/-->\n\n<!-- wp:lazyblock\/two-column-text-quote-image {\"text-right\":\"\\u003cp\\u003eThat\u2019s why Cadbury Dairy Milk have launched a new brand campaign, 'Donate Your Words', in support of Age UK. 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