Many of our lives online and technology depend on the standards, and the group groups designed to ensure that our favorite tools and services work together. At their best, they make everything work smoothly, and we never need to be concerned about what is happening behind the scenes. But in its worst cases, they leave us confused about why new things are not done – and they wonder how we can make them better.
In this special number of freedomWe explore the way the specifications and protocols affect our productivity and emotions – from Barnaf’s more efficient video promise, to the power of Watt as a way to understand our tools, to our constant frustration with USB Micro. These are the methods of specifications and standards that run our digital life.
