The potential of technology to empower is being subverted by tyrannical user interface design, enabled by our data and attention.This article was originally published on WonkBridge.My thesis here is that an obsession with easy, “intuitive” and perhaps even efficient user interfaces is creating a layer of soft tyranny. This layer is not unlike what I might create were I a dictator, seeking to soften up the public prior to an immense abuse of liberty in the future, by getting them so used to comic...