The year of the lawsuits

The first time a design decision - making attachment work on purpose - was treated as the actionable wrong, rather than the behaviour of a user being treated as it. The shift in who is the defendant is the whole history of this lane in miniature.

Consideration. The part where somebody stops and thinks. The research, the diagnosis, the ethics, the lawsuits, the regulators. Roughly fifty years of arguing with itself about whether this is a relationship.