journal article
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Digital Economy: Dark Innovations in the Digital Economy
2023 ACM SIGBED Review
doi: 10.1145/3627575pmid: N/A
Innovations are adoptions of new practice in communities. They are adopted because people perceive value from them. However, around the edges of the standard community practice, new practices can emerge that are of negative value. They are called dark innovations. Four examples are examined here: privacy, subscriptions, automation, and class abstraction. There is no easy way to eliminate dark innovations.