[Kvakes]

Absolutely, 100%. Not all tech is the same. A chair is a form of technology, but it doesn't try to make you sit all the time. Although some technologies (like books) are replaced with e-readers through which we handle over a certain degree of freedom to whomever the platform we use belongs to.

[A_Duck]

The challenge is the system of incentives around the technology

If chair designers were paid based on the number of hours you sat in the chair, I expect we'd see some very different chairs. Probably not better ones for anyone whose life ambitions involve getting up out of a chair.

[_Algernon_]

>The challenge is the system of incentives around the technology

The solution is simple: Outlaw advertising. It should have been done decades ago, considering the negative externalities it puts on society (in terms of visual pollution, and harmful incentives it creates).

There is no real reason for it existing. The original argument was that it provides customers with information based on which to make purchasing decisions. It hasn't done this since at least Edward Bernays'[1] time. And there is no argument to be made that customers with internet existing lack information based on which to make purchasing decisions.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays

[Kvakes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcXMhwF4EtQ

[yapyap]

a chair is a form of technology?

[TheSoftwareGuy]

Technology: Noun

1. The application of science, especially to industrial or commercial objectives.